Premiere pro project damaged

[Devrim Akteke]

Hi, Well it is a bad one. Of course, nothing is guaranteed in this situation but you may try resetting your preferences and try the original project file and auto-saves again. You can follow below steps below from Adobe Community:

Reset your Premiere Pro preferences.

With Premiere Pro closed, navigate to the preferences file and move it to another location.

By default, the preferences files are located here:

• Windows: C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Adobe\Premiere Pro\<version>\Profile-<profilename>\Adobe Premiere Pro Prefs
• macOS: /Users/<username>/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/<version>/Adobe Premiere Pro Prefs

The next time you open Premiere Pro, it creates a new preference file.

More details here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/reset-preferences.html

Then launch Premiere Pro by launching from the app – not from any existing project. Basically you want to open a fresh new project and see if that works.

If it does – clear your ‘cache’ files

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/faq-how-to-clear-your-media-cache-in-premier…

now try launching one of your problem projects by using ‘open project’ from the file menu.

If that does not work try ‘importing’ one of your problem projects.

In a fresh Premiere Pro project go to the file menu and select ‘import’ – choose one of your old projects and follow the prompts to import ‘entire project’.

[Hector Vera]

Usually when I have a corrupted file on Photoshop and Sony Vegas, they would automatically backup a restored saved project. Not sure if you made sure of that, if not, then I would suggest trying what the other guy told you and going forward, you should try to save a 2nd backup file in another file location just incase one of them is corrupted. So you can be able to recover the project with the other backup and save it above both files once you make any changed on it. I had to do that sometimes with my Vegas projects when I noticed signs of corruptions that can happen, you just never know when your computer will act up. Best of luck! 🙂

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Saiful,

Adding to Devrim’s suggestions, I would set up a new project, and just import the last good timeline from your old project. If that works, export an XML straight away as your “back-up”.

Also, you don’t mention hardware or PPro version that you are using, which would be helpful too.
Before I decided to ditch Adobe, I had some FX6 footage in my project, where it would just crash out without creating a crash report, as soon as I clicked anything inside the open project.

Once I transcoded the footage to ProRes, all my trouble went away. It was easy enough to replace the original files inside the project with the transcoded files.

Atb
Mads

[Mark Grance]

What is a bit weird to me is that you say “all the auto-saved projects are damaged”. That suggests to me that your PP installation is damaged, not the project.

Can you open other projects? (make a copy first).

If that works then the suggestion of importing timelines into a new project is a good suggestion.

If resetting preferences doesn’t work I would uninstall PP and then reinstall.