: after effects error it is not possible to import the file as a project (invalid or unreadable form

[Roooodboy]

I was making a animation on after effects this whole week and today I tried to enter and it didn't open, showing the error "after effects error: it is not possible to import the file as a project (invalid or unreadable format)". I lost EVERYTHING I've done, and I have to send this video this week. I don't know what to do, please, help me!

[Mylenium]

No offense, but relying on an auto-saved project without ever having created a manual Save/ Version/ Backup/ Copy? I can barely believe my eyes! That just is not smart at all and I'm extremely shocked and baffled. Should you have those backups/ older versions of the project somewhere, give that a try, but otherwise there isn't really much you can do. It would be impossible what went wrong and damaged the project, even more so since you didn't offer up any specific info on the project itself, your computer and so on. And by all means educate yourself on safe file operations such as making regular use of the Save/ Save As... / Save a Copy... and so on functions in the menu to avoid such disasters in the future.

Mylenium

[Roooodboy]

I have all the automatic saves here, like 30, but no one is opening. Just the save that I've made yesterday. My pc has powered down by itself and the save has corrupted.