CS5 crashing turns .fla file into unexpected file format

Question

While working in Flash Professional CS5, the program crashed and when I open the last version of the flash file I saved it tells me it's an unexpected file format. What is this about? It is an .fla file. How can I recover this file and is there an auto save feature in CS5? Please help

kglad · Answer

your fla is corrupted.you may (but probably won't) be able to salvage some of your work.1. copy the fla so you have a duplicate and original.2. rename the duplicate to a rar file3. open the rar file with winrar and repair it.4. rename the repaired rar to a fla and open in flash.5. if that succeeds, you're lucky. read below because that will never happen again.6. if that fails, rename the repaired renamed fla back to a rar file and unrar it. you may be able to recover some assetsresolve to never encounter that again by saving your fla projects frequently with different names. i append _v000, _v001, _v002 etc to the file name.i created a jsfl that does that automatically and created a shortcut to the jsfl file so pressing ctrl-alt-s saves with the next incremented file name suffix.

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