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August 18, 2026
Question

The saved animation does not open

I was working on an animation, got halfway through it, and saved it (I’m sure of that). The next day, I wanted to continue, but it won’t open: an error occurred opening file “file name”. The animation file isn’t empty; it’s almost 40 MB. There’s a theory that Kaspersky antivirus is deleting some files from drive C — maybe temporary files or something else (I’m not really sure). I had a similar situation recently with Paint Tool Sai2: my drawing simply wouldn’t open. I’ll attach the file with the animation; maybe you can help somehow. Thank you in advance🙏🏻

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    Participating Frequently
    August 31, 2026

    can I send a file, may be you can help?

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    kglad
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    Community Expert
    August 18, 2026

    rename the fla to a zip

    open winzip and choose repair

    navigate to your renamed animate file and select/repair it

    rename the repaired zip to a fla

    try to open the repaired fla in animate

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    Participating Frequently
    August 20, 2026

    I tried winrar and winzip, and it didn’t work. when I repaired the file in winrar, it opened but there was nothing there, just one white layer

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    kglad
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    August 21, 2026

    can you unzip the repaired file?

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