After Effects error: crash occurred while invoking plug-in "Reveal Project

[MattLucas22]

[MattLucas22]

Has anyone ever seen this. It won't let me open up any projects and I can't find this plug-in Reveal Project?

[Byron Cortez]

Try this:

Restore the default Preference settings

To restore the default preference settings, press and hold the following keys while the application is starting.

• Windows: Ctrl+Alt+Shift
• macOS: Command+Option+Shift

[ShiveringCactus]

That sounds to me like an issue with your graphics card being used by both After Effects and Windows File Explorer.  If you go into Edit > Preferences > Import and uncheck Enable Hardware Accelerated Decoding, it might prevent this crash.