HELP !! – Cannot reload .aep project file

[Andy Stokes]

Hi all,

Was just working on a composition when my machine unexpectedly hung (blue screen). After restart I tried to open the .aep and recieved the following error :-

After effects error : missing data in file
(33::4)

Any ideas how I might recover all or part of the data from this file ? I saved it about 1 minute before the crash. It’s still 6.91mb. I’ve spent alot of time working on this project. Has anyone got any idea ???

Cheers,

Andy

[Barend Onneweer]

Sometimes it helps to import the corrupted file into a new empty project.

Apart from that, there’s an Increment and Save function in AE 6.5. It seems like a good time to start using it.

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[Andy Stokes]

Thanks Bar3nd, but importing didn’t work either… Also, I usually always increment save, just not recent enough this time !!

I’m so annoyed as there was alot of new expression setups I had been experimenting with. I’m hoping there might be some way of even opening the .aep in a text editor or something and recover part of the file at least…. although guess i’m dreaming… I need a beer now…

Cheers,

Andy

[thomas mcmurry]

just wondering, are you running Tiger? (if so, Clean Install, Upgrade, ?)

I have the same problem with a big project and get that error too. I resorted to starting from scratch due to a time crunch.