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December 18, 2022
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Recovery file wont open

  • December 18, 2022
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My PC crashed right after I saved but then I ignored the recovery file because I just saved it but it couldn't open it so then I tried opening the recovery file but that wouldn't work aswell.
Could anybody help me asap because I have a deadline of the 31st of December.

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    kglad
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 18, 2022

    you can try renaming the fla's to zip's, using winrar to repair and then renaming the repaired zip's to fla's.

     

    and learn to prevent this in the future, by frequently saving with an increasing version number appended to the file name.  periodically close and reopen the most resent version to confirm it's not corrupted.

    Participant
    December 18, 2022

    I have tried that before but Winrar gives me an error saying "The archive is eaither unknown format or damaged"

    kglad
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 18, 2022

    then you're out of luck this time. you probably can't even unzip it. 

     

    well, prevent the problem in the future.