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Delightful_code3625
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April 15, 2025
Question

UNABLE TO IMPORT FILE BAD FOPRMAT OR NOT READABLE

  • April 15, 2025
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BY ACCIDENT I FORCED RESTARTED MY COMPUTER AND NOW MY FILES IR CORRUPTED/DAMAGED AND IVE TRIED IT ON OTHER COMPUTERS AND IT SEEMS LIKE ITS THE FILE I WAS ABOUT TO RENDER TO IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME FIX MY FILE I WOULD BE HAPPY ( IVE TRIED MOSTLY EVERY METHOD THE DRAG AND DROP AND IMPORT FILES, CHANGING THE NAME THEY DONT WORK) IF ANY CAN HELP I WOULD MUCH BE APPRICIEATED.

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    Warren Heaton
    Community Expert
    Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 16, 2025

    @Delightful_code3625 

     

    What Gary suggests gives you a good chance of recovering  most of your work.

     

    You can also try importing the project that will not open into a new, empty project.  

     

    It looks like your project is stored in your OneDrive.  You could also check the cloud version of the project file, but if syncing has not beed disabled (which I would consider doing while working from a location like OneDrive) then the cloud file will likely be corrupted as well.

     

     

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    Gary Reisman @NBC
    Inspiring
    April 15, 2025

    Probably not much you can do if the project has become corrupt. 
    In After Effecst preferences there are a few Auto-Save options,  it's good practice to use them,  then you'll have a more recent backup to fall back on. 

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