URGENT: AE Freezing When Importing .fla Files – Critical Workflow Issue

[Magne22016845ysi1]

Hi everyone,

I’ve been importing .fla files from Adobe Animate into After Effects for years as part of my daily workflow. While it’s never been 100% reliable, it did work consistently enough for daily use—until yesterday.

Yesterday, I upgraded to After Effects 2025, and since then, AE freezes whenever I try to import a .fla file. Sometimes I get an error message saying:

"Error importing this file. Please try again."

I’ve since tried reverting to different versions of After Effects, including 2023, which previously worked fine—but I’m still unable to import any .fla files. AE just freezes or becomes unresponsive.

This is a huge issue for me as I rely on this workflow for client projects and have deadlines coming up fast. I’ve tried basic troubleshooting like clearing caches and restarting, but no luck so far.

Has anyone else run into this issue? Any suggestions or fixes would be greatly appreciated. I really need to get this resolved ASAP.

Thanks in advance!

[jenkmeister]

Please make sure you have Adobe Animate installed and up to date. AE relies on Animate for .fla file import.

[Magne22016845ysi1]

It is updated. I have the latest version of both animate and AE as well as 23, 24, version for both programs.