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matthewp8033813
Participant
October 3, 2025

Ongoing issue – damaged project files in Premiere Pro (Beta)

  • October 3, 2025
  • 4 replies
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After a random crash, when I go to reopen my project, Premiere reports “The project appears to be damaged, it cannot be opened.”

I have already tried, without success:

  • Opening Auto-Save versions (all returned the same error)

  • Installing the previous versions of Premiere Beta

  • Attempting to open the project in an older, stable version of Premiere Pro

  • Using third-party tools to inspect or edit the project file


The first time this happened, I assumed it was a one-off. I rebuilt my project from scratch, only to have the exact same thing happen again.

This issue has already cost me significant lost work and time.

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MisterAdvent
Inspiring
October 8, 2025

I just tried this in today's build 25.6.0 build 92.  Not seeing the issue at all. 

 

Windows 11 

bbb_999
Adobe Employee
bbb_999
Adobe Employee
October 3, 2025

> They were all created before the crash.

Interesting: that suggests that the project was corrupted before the random crash, and that auto-save was dutifully saving that corruption... 

>I used VS code to look at the file but as a humble video editor it's way over my head to be honest. 

It's not just you; .prproj files aren't written, to be human-friendly. 🙂

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matthewp8033813Author
Participant
October 3, 2025

Thanks, I've just emailed it to you.

 

All auto saves (around from around a 3 hour period of editing) except the first one - but that was useless to me as it was so early on. They were all created before the crash.

I used VS code to look at the file but as a humble video editor it's way over my head to be honest. 

bbb_999
Adobe Employee
bbb_999
Adobe Employee
October 3, 2025

Frustrating!

I've DM'd you my (Adobe) email address; we'd be interested in getting a copy of the broken project. 


It's very weird that all auto-saves return the same error. Were all of the auto-saves, created after you experienced that random crash? 

Also, out of curiosity; what 3rd party tools did you use, to inspect/edit the project file? 

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