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  • locked out of after effects project

    Posted by Nick Francis on April 22, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    Hi All,

    I’m running CS3 & have been completely locked out of a project I was working on.

    I was trying to get some data from a comp in another project, so i closed down this project, opened up the old project, selected what I needed in the comp & copied it. I pasted it into the new project & it came up fine but with some files saying “Original Source Deleted”. I couldn’t remember which exact files they were so I saved & closed, opened up the old project & noted the file names.

    Now, whenever I try to get back into the new project, After Effects loads up, the project window opens and then I get error 00:42. I’ve checked on websites & this seems to be the most generic error message around!

    Is there anything I can do with this project? I’m pretty sure it’s the “original source deleted” files which are the problem. Does anyone have any advice they can give me?

    Thank you!

    Nick 🙂

    Nick Francis replied 18 years, 4 months ago 21,982 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Nick Francis

    April 22, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    Thanks Dave, that solution worked a treat. Didn’t know that Import File could be used for that purpose.

    Thanks also for the prompt reply 🙂

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