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SoheilaH
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November 20, 2025
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"This project was saved in a newer version of..." when you have the latest version.

  • November 20, 2025
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I am getting an error when I try to open a project I was working on two days ago. 

 

"This project was saved in a newer version of Adobe Premier Pro and connot be open in this version" but I have no updates and am on the latest version.

 

Anyone else getting this error? Is there a fix?

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jamieclarke
Community Manager
jamieclarkeCommunity Manager
Community Manager
November 20, 2025

HI @SoheilaH -We are working on a solution, more information to come.  Would you be able to send the project file you can't open to jamiec@adobe.com 

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Stan JonesCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 20, 2025

@jamieclarke,

 

That's great to hear. Somehow, this is the first of these posts I saw, so I'm responding to it. There are obviously many variations of the problems, depending on what users installed and how they used it. I'm posting this to help ensure that variations are not overlooked.

 

I did not get the rollout of 25.6.0 before it was pulled. I was working with a project file from @Brave_moments5386, without the media/masking data etc. It was not just an issue of mismatched project file versions (i.e. 43 vs 44). But my other errors may have been due to not having media/mask data. And his was not unique but may have been worked on in the Beta.

His file is still available here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/project-won-t-open-the-project-appears-to-be-damaged-error-premiere-pro-beta/m-p/15597856#M12683

 

I posted about it here:

- https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/project-won-t-open-the-project-appears-to-be-damaged-error-premiere-pro-beta/m-p/15598021#M12685

- https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/premiere-projects-saved-in-v25-6-0-cannot-be-opened-in-other-v25-x-versions/idc-p/15598860#M58070

- https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/premiere-projects-saved-in-v25-6-0-cannot-be-opened-in-other-v25-x-versions/idc-p/15600695#M58222

 

1 - When opened in the Beta (26.0.0.30), it shows as damaged. I believe this is because it had the <> type XML error in the project contents. That problem was originally reported in the Beta before the roll-out of 25.6.0.

2 -When corrected, it would open in the Beta with 2 alerts: "Video Filter missing: Color Balance" and "mask files missing."  (I don't recall if it was then or on some other test that I got the message: "Could not find the mask data in [project path\name] Removed Masks.")

3 - As expected, it was project file type 44. But if I downgraded it and opened in PR 25.5.0, PR crashed with a crash dialogue. (I did not report it.) It also crashed 24.6.5, and crashed 25.5.0 if I created a new project there and tried to import it.

4 - Once 25.6.1 was available to me, and I installed it, that file resulted in it closing silently whether I tried to open or import it.

 

Stan

 

 

 

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Volodymyr Kuropiatnyk
Known Participant
November 20, 2025

Fix Script PowerShell for you project

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem

Get-ChildItem -Filter *.prproj | ForEach-Object {
$in=$_.FullName
$out=Join-Path $_.DirectoryName ($_.BaseName + "_downgrage.prproj")

$fs=[IO.File]::OpenRead($in)
$gz=New-Object IO.Compression.GZipStream($fs,[IO.Compression.CompressionMode]::Decompress)
$r =New-Object IO.StreamReader($gz,[Text.Encoding]::UTF8)
$xml=$r.ReadToEnd()
$r.Close();$gz.Close();$fs.Close()

# БЕЗ третього аргумента – замінює всі входження
$xml = $xml.Replace('Version="44"','Version="43"')

$ofs=[IO.File]::Create($out)
$ogz=New-Object IO.Compression.GZipStream($ofs,[IO.Compression.CompressionMode]::Compress)
$w =New-Object IO.StreamWriter($ogz,[Text.Encoding]::UTF8)
$w.Write($xml)
$w.Close();$ogz.Close();$ofs.Close()

Write-Host "Done $out"
}

Peru Bob
Community Expert
Peru BobCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 20, 2025

Install the Beta version and it will open there.

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