After Effects Crashes when opening a Specific Project

[faenies]

Hello everyone and first of all thank you for your time!

I'm working since yesterday on a After Effects Project for a university submission. The file never gave me any headaches and I could open/close it multiple times without any problems. I was at "almost" finished point, rendered it to showcase to my groupmates and shut down my computer for a couple hours - when I came back to finish the last touches After Effects began giving me problems: Each time I try to open this particular project it crashes.

Then I thought It was that I haven't updated my AE in a while, did that and same thing happened.

I had a old version of macOS Sierra so I updated it again, but didn't get any results.

Went on the internet and read about Purging "Disk Cache and Memory" (which I never did since I downloaded AE, and got rid of a lot of GB worth of stuff) but again I had the same problem.

Then lastly I tried to open a couple AutoSaves I had but it crashes every single time. Again, this only happens with this particular project - the other ones (although aren't as heavy) work just fine and before the shut down of the computer I didn't stumble in any problem.

For Reference:

My Macbook info:

AE Error:

The whole message is extremely long but if need I can post it!

Thank you to anyone for your time, it's really appreciated!

[imeilfx]

Try maby open that project in new one

1. Create new clean project

2. Import project causing crashes into that new one.

3. If project open without crash - save that project as a new one.

In most cases that should help. Let us know.

[faenies]

Unfortunately that didn't happen - As soon as I imported the project it crashed

[jasonh24136631]

I have the same issue trying to open a project I just was working on yesterday and today it crashes After Effects when I try to open it. I've purged memory and cache and tried importing the project into a new (clean) project and it just crashes again. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks..

[jasonh24136631 · Accepted solution]

Victory! Almost the moment I finished writing this post, Adobe Creative Cloud issued new updates. I updated AE to version 16.0.1 and it opens now. Nice!

[Venkat_Maneesh]

But I am using adobe 17.5 and the same thing happening again and again but importing in a different project helped me. hoping that 18.0 can fix this

[massdreams36488020]

Thx! Work!!!

[Melina5C57]

Thank you this actually helped me!