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dhoene
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February 24, 2023
Question

After Effects Error File is Damaged, project and all auto-save versions

  • February 24, 2023
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Any way to recover corrupt AE file?
 

I had some power surges and it seems that the project I had open when my computer was in sleep mode corrupted, along with every auto-save version.

Does anyone with dev tools have access to take a look at the code to see if there are errors that can be corrected?

Attached are the original .aep, and the most recent autosave file.

 

Working on the latest AE2023, I tried importing the project on both PC and mac versions of AE just to check. I get some of my timelines back using some temp files, but all of my dynamic linked timelines to Premiere just show "Recovered Placeholder" in the project panel with now layer or keyframe data within them.

 

General errors shown when importing the project into a new project are:

1) After effects error: file is damaged

2) After effects error: chunk in file too big - probably unsupported file version

3) After effects error: file is damaged.

 

I'm working on getting this troubled PC replaced, or swapping the motherboard so this doesn't happen for a third time, but any help so I don't have to re-do 3 days worth of work for a client would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

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Participant
February 1, 2024

my file isnt working either it says error