Jasmine219172945a93

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Adobe Animate .Fla File Blank?!

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
March 27, 2022
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Hey guys,

I recently created a HTML animation ad that I'm pretty proud of. I did make sure that I had been saving it throughout the day. Unfortunately when re opening the .fla file a couple of days later, I've noticed that the file is completely blank. No layers, Just 'Layer_1'. The file is supposedly 125kb.

Any ideas on whether this is salvagable?

Thanks! Jasmine

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Check your library and also look on your computer for recovery files.

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what's in your fla library?

p.s. you should be saving with appended version numbers that are incremented after significant work is added.

Jasmine219172945a93Author

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Hey kglad,

Thanks for responding. Have learnt my lesson and will do as of now!

All my symbols that I created are in there, just all my layers are gone.

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save that fla with a version number appended now. that will give you two copies of the only fla you have (so far).

you'll then check for auto-recovery fla and you'll try to repair one of the copies.

first, rename one fla to a rar

then repair it with winrar

then rename the repaired rar to a fla

try to open the repaired fla in animate

if the layers are present, save it with an increased version number.

if that fails, check for an auto-recovery file:

open AutoRecoverFilenames.txt* and see if there was a saved file and, if so, check the folder location listed

*

win:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Adobe\<animate version>\en_US\Configuration

mac:

Users/<username>/Application Support/Adobe/<animate/flash version>/en_US/Configuration/