Why won't my file open? Was it corrupted or was it old?

Guess I have to Start Over ;_;. Man I gonna take forever and my Dell Battery is dead so I can't bring it to school. Hope u still give me some answer to fix it for the Dell Laptop/Chromebook.

if, when you try to open the fla, you see an error message that fhe file is corrupt, you can try to repair* it or look for an auto-recovery file**.  if you see any other message, what is that message?

* to repair:

rename the fla to a rar

open in winrar

repair the rar

rename the repaired rar to a fla

retry opening the fla in animate, or unraring the repaired rar and see if you can view the assets and import them into a new uncorrupted fla.

** to find an auto-recovery file

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

***

win:

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

mac:

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