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The ol’ Damaged Project XML trick… please help
Premiere Pro 2 woke up on the wrong side of the bed today and told my project to go to hell (i.e., damaged project, cannot be opened).
Tried importing the project in a new project, but that didn’t help. And auto-save must not have done its job yesterday because my last auto-save was a few hours before I finished working on it for the day.
I’ve read about changing the XML code to fix the problem. Is this true or a scam? And how do I make this change and what do I need to look for?
Thanks for your concern.
Mike Browning
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3 Replies
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I have been able to save a couple of corrupted files for people by using XML Wrench. It pointed out some bad XML and I made a guess as to how to remedy the situation.
Provide me a link, or use https://www.yousendit.com
My email address is on my site.
Steven
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Steven,
Thank you for the reply.
I actually did some more research after I posted and found out about your XML Wrench. I opened my project with it and lo, it seemed that my project was too large for XML Wrench to display all the lines (it simply cut it off at about 3600 lines – maybe this is a bug?). So it wasn’t able to check well-formed or valid and find anything other than the tag that got cut off at the end. So I set out to redo my edits, and then later after scanning the XML in a text editor, I thought I’d give it another try in XML Wrench – this time it displayed everything and well-formed and valid check gave me the thumbs up. Call it a miracle or just a fickle computer, but my project now opens!
All this to say that my project is fine now and thank you for your offer. If this happens again (and I’m sure it will), I will remember who to look to for help.
Just for discussion’s sake and future reference, is there a certain XML tag or parameter that’s usually the culprit in these project file corruptions?
Thanks again,
Mike Browning -
It isn’t my program, just something I saw on a forum.
The only problems I have been able to find so far were corrupted parameter values. Binary looking crud in the middle of readable text.
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