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The project appears to be damaged. It cannot be opened.
Hello friends
This is my first post here, prompted by a problem I’m having with PPro 6.
I discovered my project file was damaged and could not be opened. Luckily I’ve only lost 3 hours of work (thank god for auto-saves), but I’m quite keen to see if I can rescue the main file.
After having carried out some research, I converted the file extension to .gz, then opened the file using xmlwrench, in an attempt to read, locate and possibly fix the bad code. Strangely there was no text within the file, even though the file size was 1277KB. I tried the same method with a different file, and could see the .xml text fine, so the lack of text is definitely due to the corrupt data in the file, and not my method of opening it.
Can anyone provide advice on whether there is anything I can do to access the xml code? I’m up for a challenge, and would like to try to locate the damaged code, however at this stage I can’t see ‘any’ code to fix…!
Any advice would be great.
Cheers
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what is the size of that “project” file. We have had the same thing happen, after a full save and shutdown, come back in the morning and project is damaged…when looking at the file, I believe it was like 8kb….7MB project, 8kb save…autosave had correct file, only lost an hour, but still.
Sorry I don’t have any other fix for you, and yes, our editor was a little upset!
Broadway Video, NYC
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Hi Joe,
There’s hardly any difference between the original project file (the damaged one), and the older saved version. Well, difference in terms of KB, not in terms of my creative time 😉 So I am hoping that the damaged file is still salvageable in some way. If the file’s contents were totally wiped, surely this would be reflected in a massive drop in file size?
I think this happened when I shut down my laptop in a hurry on the train, without either saving, or shutting down the application first. Maybe it was in the middle of an auto-save?
It’s distressing; this was a non-professional project, so no harm done in my case. It sounds like your situation is much more critical…
Let’s hope for a solution 🙂
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I keep my own backup ppj files.
Usually three versions in “save” rotation such as bigmovie-A.ppj, bigmovie-B.ppj …. etc.
I also have the same structures on a different hard drive. So when I manually save about every half hour It takes more time to save to two places. It has been more reliable that the autosave method. Sort of “belt & auapenders”.
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