“Project file doesn’t exist”

[Todd Kopriva]

What is the name of the project file? Any non-standard characters in the name?

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[Lon Waitman]

I have found a work-around. The problem only exists if I try to open the project file by clicking on it directly. But if I open AE and navigate to the project file and open it that way, the file opens up fine.

Todd – to answer your question: No, no non-standard characters. The names of the problem files have the same characters as many other names of files that are not a problem.

[Jon Bosley]

Sorry to drag this one up again, I get the same issue on pretty much every .aep I create, I can’t open it from explorer, only via the File > Open menu. I’ve coped fine with it but wanted to know if I could solve the problem altogether.

Running Win7 x64

[Dudley Saunders]

This is happening to me, and it won’t open via File>Open inside of After Effects either.

I am opening a CS4 project for the first time in CS5, but all my other CS4 projects are having no trouble opening in CS5. These are new, very fast PCs — any ideas? It’s a pretty crucial project.

Dudley Saunders
KCET Los Angeles

Dudley Saunders
Editor-Producer

[Pavan Kumar]

I have faced same problem .

My after effects template folder structure was like this

E:\05Logo演绎AE合集\Logos\projects\diamond.aet

it says doesnt exist. then i copied the aet file to another drive like this F:\diamond.aet . i opened and it worked.

Their might be some problem with path where after effects may not recognise another languages or special characters like i was having.

[Chris Pettit]

I’m having the same problem, working on workarounds now.

Anyone know what AE is doing this? pretty scary stuff with clients archived content at stake

thanks

[David Wehle]

Sorry if this is resurrecting a dead thread, but this is the top hit when you Google this problem. I’ve discovered why it does this, even though the file isn’t corrupt. If there are two spaces in a row anywhere in the file path name, it will give you this error message. Simply find the faulty folder and remove the extra space in the name.

[Chad Gilmour]

This thread literally just saved my day! Opening through the AE interface and the double spaces both solved my issue. Thanks guys!

[Michael Antonino]

Thanks a lot David you were absolutely right. The folder my project was in had two spaces in it. As soon as I fixed that, After Effects didn’t have any problems with loading my project.

VERY Helpful to know.

[Marco Stoppani]

thanks a lot, it’ strange this thing, isn’t it?