[Jeff Bishop]

I have access to my Priemier Pro again! It turned out to be the way the preferences had gotten re-configured over time in the PP CS3 program (workspaces, etc.) Just saved at the last minute from a complete system restore. Thanks Patty for your suggestions!

[Jeff Bishop]

Thanks for replying Patty. When you say “try setting up a new account on your computer and opening it from the new account” are you talking about a new account with Adobe? Could you please tell me what type of account you were referring to? Also, any tips on how to set it up would be greatly appreciated! I’m about to do a full system restore tomorrow to fix the problem and I would be so happy to not have to do that. Thanks so much to those who have replied to my post.

[Jeff Bishop]

Thanks for your reply Jon. I haven’t installed any new programs lately.
Does system restore completely reset the computer? (i.e clean off the hard drives, etc) How do I get to system restore? I’m running Windows XP Professional on a computer we had someone build for editing so I don’t know all the specs. I’ve done about 10 projects so far and it’s worked great. But tough to edit when the program won’t open!

[Jeff Bishop]

Thanks to Mike J. for your great suggestion. I was able to open the auto-save files by opening Premier Pro first and then clicking on File>Open Project and it worked! I have my safety net back again. What a helpful forum you folks have here.

Thanks to all who responded.

[Jeff Bishop]

Thanks to George & those who’ve responded so far. In my Premier Pro auto-save file, the file icon says EN.It has the name of my project and .prproj. When I click on properties it says:

Type of file: PRPROJ file
Opens with: Adobe Encore

When I click on it, it tries to open the file in Encore and then gives the message I wrote earlier: “cannot open file…”

So it’s kind of a Premier Pro/Encore hybrid file…Any other ideas or suggestions? Thanks!