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OY! – “Project appears to be damaged, it cannot be opened” Help Me OB WAN, you’re my only hope!!!
IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE THAT CAN SAVE THIS FRUSTRATED MAN?
After ~40 hrs of work in premiere pro 1.0 (# from “about premiere” is C522 – 8/11/2003)
I had some problems rendering a transition last night. Premiere would shut down. After a few times, I changed the transition (it had some repeating frames), and it rendered fine.
Today I tried to export to tape, and the thing hung up, didn’t resond, then I get this stinkin’ message – “Project appears to be damaged, it cannot be opened”
I tried Adobe phone support – they didn’t help.
Is there any GURU that can suggest how I can open this friggin’ project (2 hrs of sleep, sorry)
Also found the auto save feature was turned off (of course!)
IMPORTANT: I would make sure your auto save feature is on at all times, and run a test to make sure it is working and you can recover previous auto saved versions. Learn from my mistake
Thanks, Dane
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7 Replies
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Open a new project and Import the old project into the new one.
You might have a pleasant surprise.
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Thanks for the advice –
I called Adobe and they suggested that. I did it, but to no avail.
Also, moved files, renamed them, copied, etc. – None of this worked.
Defraged my Hard Drive – that didn’t work.
I’m gonna try to upgrade to the latest premiere pro, but I’m almost positive that won’t work.
So I’ll have to do it over. MAKE SURE YOUR AUTO SAVE WORKS!
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Hi,
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You do not have to run “AUTO SAVE” and it can be a problem.
Get in the ‘CTRL-S” habit and hit it often. Also use “SAVE COPY” and write over it regulary
Sorry but it is unlikely that you will ever open the corrupt Project – been there but I did follow my own advice above and was able to open the Copy (lost about 1/2 days work though)
Craig
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)
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CTRL-S is your friend – sometimes. Also consider when opening the project for the first time in a day, do it from Open Project, not the list of recent projects. Then, in the file window, do Ctrl-C Ctrl-V to make a windows file copy of the project file. After a while you will have a series of copies. CTRL-S will happily save the corrupted project on top of itself.
Other things ti try : delete the previews, delete the conformed audio, remove all of the media files to another folder ( bring them back later). Each of these may let PPro get further.
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Save As, Save As, Save As…. Save Ass.
My project list looks like this:
ABC June 14 01.prproj
ABC June 14 02.prproj
ABC June 15 03.prproj
ABC June 16 04.prproj
ABC June 16 05.prproj
ABC June 16 06.prproj
ABC June 17 07.prproj
ABC June 17 08.prprojEtc. ad nauseum. I started this in Discreet Edit with the timelines. It’s very easy to tell which project is the latest, if the latest goes corrupt I go back one. Plus, I have the auto-save, although I find it unreliable.
We all forget though. Ugh.
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I’ve just had this problem when moving a project from my Creative Cloud version of Premiere to a laptop that is using CS6. I downloaded the CC version to my laptop and the project loaded fine. Frustrating for a while – Adobe should get this sorted asap!! ….. but simple fix!
Rick Barker
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