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mohamedt39176836
Inspiring
July 15, 2018
Answered

After Effects can’t continue: unexpected failure during application startup

  • July 15, 2018
  • 4 replies
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I'm confused after updating AE to the latest version .
a I can't launch it and i face these following issues even if I tried many times to delete and reinstall it but It won't launch :
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And finally it shows this :
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Correct answer mohamedt39176836

The problem was in the new beta unicode settings of Windows 10 , I've checked new beta unicode system .
Now it's worked after i unchecked it and restarted the pc.

4 replies

Participant
January 18, 2020

Yes this worked on my DELL laptop Win10 ! Thank you Mohamed.

mohamedt39176836
mohamedt39176836AuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
July 15, 2018

The problem was in the new beta unicode settings of Windows 10 , I've checked new beta unicode system .
Now it's worked after i unchecked it and restarted the pc.

Kyle Hamrick
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 16, 2018

Glad it worked out!

Kyle Hamrick
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 15, 2018

Have you tried resetting your preferences? Click the icon to start AE, then hold

Cntl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Cmd+Opt+Shift (Mac)

You'll get a dialogue asking if you want to reset your preferences. Choose yes/ok. Does this fix the issue?

If no,
Are you running a non-English version of AE, by any chance?
Do any of your drives have a special character as part of the drive name?

Let me know if any of this helps!

mohamedt39176836
Inspiring
July 15, 2018

Yeah I've tried to clean it , my drive name has no special character .
No I'm using English version supporting Arabic , that's it.

Community Expert
July 15, 2018

Just when you click to open Ae, press Ctrl + Shift - Alt and then press OK in the next dialog box to clear the factory preferences of the application. That could solve your issue.

Byron.
mohamedt39176836
Inspiring
July 15, 2018

No , it doesn't work