Accidentally put trigger + cycle layers on same layer- is my project destroyed?

Question

I was trying to make different hands for my puppet to cycle through, and at first I thought I was supposed to make it a key trigger. After making the triggers, I noticed it wasn't working and when I pushed the key to trigger the new hands, it stayed the same. Then I remembered that I was supposed to make put the "cycle layers" behavior on the layer, not make it a trigger. Without thinking, I added the "cycle layers" behavior to the hands group before deleting the triggers. This caused the program to go absolutely beserk. Now it says my file is corrupted and won't open the project. Is there any way I can fix this, or is all of my work gone for good? It took me a long time to get the rig just right, I would hate to have to do everything all over again.  Please help!

DanTull · Accepted Answer

For those following along at home: after inspecting a copy of the project, I recognized the error message indicated there was a malformed reference file. These are little files that point to history states in the project for use in history panel bookmarks (an automatic one in this case). Deleting that file got the project back to good.

For reference, the error message is:
libgit2 error -1(4/Corrupted loose reference file: refs/tags/v161/recent/95) returned from git_tag_create(&tagOid, repoP->mRawRepoP, snapshotID.c_str(), target.p, signatureP.get(), message.c_str(), bAllowOverwrite)

In this case, the file to delete was (Ch Data/repo.noindex/refs/tags/v161/recent/95). These files just contain ids that point to records in the project database, so deleting an invalid one does not lose any data.

I'm going to investigate a bit further why this minor damage actually prevents the project from being opened, but will share this diagnosis/remedy in case it saves somebody else some grief.

Dan Tull

P.S. Thanks as always to Alan for putting up the signal flare so I spotted this one sooner rather than later!

alank99101739 · Answer

Can you try the “Undo” button? Otherwise I would try customer support or ask someone like dtull-adobe​ (Hopefully that is Dan Tull - he got renamed?)

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