Cannot open any of my recovered project files (Premiere Pro)

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November 21, 2021
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I deleted my entire premiere pro autosave folder on my computer hard drive and used Recuva to get the files back. Now I am faced with the error "This project appears to be damaged. It cannot be opened." I am on Windows 10, I've tried importing the project inside a new project and that hasn't worked. I have no idea how to go about accessing my projects again.

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leopold229168799d0e

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hello my friend, i have the same problem. Did you find a solution for yours?

Kevin-Monahan

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Hi Leopold,

Sorry. Have you tried searching your drive? Use .pproj as a string for your search.

Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio

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leopold229168799d0e

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Hey Leopold, sorry man, I took a look and none of the ones I saw were actually project files. They have the strange same size to all of them, and are not filled with project data.

The key to those file recovery programs is to have tried to recover very soon after the problem, in addition you never want to save anything to that drive before you do the recovery and and save the recovered files to a different drive, don't make any changes to the drive with the problem.

If like Kevin said, you search for .prproj or in Windows for *.prproj, it's your best chance of finding things.

Are you on Windows?

Hello Myerpj, Thank you so much for your Answer! And also thanks for having a look into the files.

Yes i am on Windows 10.
it's meanwhile 4-5 days later so i think all the data is overwritten.
I am also using the tool/application called "everything" to find every single prproj file. I tested every single file that i found of this project - all of them are sadly damaged and i cant open any of them. I checked it even before using the recovery software and there was no prproj with the name of the project found. So yes... i guess there is absolutely no project left to try. Only way to solve this is by repairing the broken/damaged project SOMEHOW.. but that's (as you said) probably impossible 😞