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An error opening file

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July 13, 2020
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I recently had adobe animate crash on my computer while i was working on a shot for my animated project. Now every time i attempt to open the file it says "an error occurred opening file" i tried to see if i had a recovery file of this file somewhere but i don't. So if there is anyone who knows of a way i could uncorupt this file so i may work on it again i would greatly apperciate it. It's for a animation I've been working on for a long time now and this shot is one I've been working on for weeks now.

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you have a chance by renaming your fla to a rar

open in winrar

repair the rar file

rename the repaired rar file to a fla

open in animate.

Marcprime9Author

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Okay, would i need to manually just remake the end of the files name .rar instead of it being .fla? Or is there more to it than that?

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Just that, mate.

Change the extension from FLA to RAR and then try to repair.

Chances are slim to recover the whole thing, but you might be able to get some assets out.

Always save backups. You can't just rely on some software to never crash.

Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation