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Jim Curtis
Inspiring
December 5, 2011
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"The project appears to be damaged. It cannot be opened."

  • December 5, 2011
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This is what I see when I try to open two ongoing projects.  I tried importing the old project into a new project.  Some times, that works, but on others, I get the same message, except with "opened" replaced by "imported."

Is there way to fix damaged projects?  Perhaps in a text editor?  Is there a service that can fix them for me?

Even my auto-saved projects are damaged (from Friday, but not Wednesday)

This can cost me a client.  I need to open these projects now.

Mac 10.6.8; Pr CS5.5.  They won't open on my MacPro3,1 or on my MBP. 

I reinstalled PrCS5.5 on the MP.  I ran Disk Warror, Repaired Permissions, trashed preferences, cleaned Caches.

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    DocuDavid
    Participant
    November 10, 2013

    A riddle for Premiere users...

    Two identical drives with the same files are given to two different editors.

    One editor creates a project file referencing files on their drive, and then sends that project file to the other editor.

    When the other editor opens the file they get the following message:

    "The project appears to be damaged, it cannot be opened".

    What is the problem?

    Steven L. Gotz
    Steven L. Gotz
    Inspiring
    November 10, 2013

    Editor 1 has CC and editor 2 has CS6.

    Or, at least that is what would happen is that is what they are using. I suppose there could be other answers to the riddle.

    I don't know if 7.01 and 7.1 will show that error or not.

    Just make sure they are on the exact same version.

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      Spamhunter
      Spamhunter
      Inspiring
      June 23, 2013

      This has just happened to me with PPro CS6 (Creative Cloud). Not good at all. Spent the whole weekend with little sleep finishing a project to be delivered Monday morning, now I have to start from ZERO - and hope it doesn't happen again!

      This is going to cost me.

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      Jim CurtisAuthor
      Inspiring
      June 23, 2013

      FWIW, I couldn't get Ae CC to import any ProRes or PhotoJPEG movie files.  On the advice of a colleague, I deleted the AJA Adobe driver, and that put me back in business, but without ability to use my AJA with Ae.  I suspect a fix is around the corner.

      The AJA Adobe driver for CC works fine with Pr, though.

      YMMV.

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      Jim CurtisAuthor
      Inspiring
      December 6, 2011

      I ended up re-doing one of my projects from Friday.  Having done it once, it went faster the second time.

      But, this is why I abandoned Pr after I first tried it, at CS3... unreliable for professional work.

      However...  I remembered a way around it that's served me with other unreliable apps... Save As more often.  Ae has an "Increment and Save" option.  Apparently, Pr needs one as well.  I can also step up the Auto-Save frequency, but Pr's Autosave is implemented in about the most annoying way possible, in that it will interrupt what you're doing to perform the auto-save.

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      Stephen Pickering122
      Inspiring
      December 6, 2011

      I guess you don't need this now but completely by accident I stumbled upon the following page: http://premierepro.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ:How_do_I_recover_a_corrupt_project%3F I was looking for ways to replace timelines using the xml file and this came up.

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      Jim CurtisAuthor
      Inspiring
      December 6, 2011

      I appreciate your effort, but I already had found that page earlier today, and XML Wrench appears to be for Windows.  I still have one project to re-edit; should take me a couple of hours, which would probably be faster than learning to edit XML code anyway.  But again, thanks for your reply.

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