Hello,this morning i noticed one of the biggest AE bugs I ever had and still have no solution other than recreating days of work with a deadline right around the corner 😄The Problem: I Try to open a Project that I worked on last week, but I only get the Message "Error attempting to duplicate a text object. Skipping the Text Layer ( 76 § 53 )" multiple times.In the first Case it stopped loading the rest of the project as well and opened empty.Then I tried the last Auto Safe File, where I still got the Message, but it loaded more of the Project, with Essential Grafics complaining that it can´t find some layers (of course). In this Version was not only some text missing but also some Graphic elements (pictures) and Shape Layers.I could understand that maybe my workflow of just duplicating Layers of shapes or text to have a new one is unsafe?!, but i never had a problem with that in the past with even bigger Projects.The crazy part is, that I found some older Versions of the Project in my GDrive, wich worked back then (early last week) , but now they have the same problem.I even tried to open the project in a new project - same problem I dont know what to doo.. While writing this i thought that it is maybe an update? and it could be the 18.2.1 update from last week?! (shame on me that i still have those on automatic) I will try an older version.

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Hello,

this morning i noticed one of the biggest AE bugs I ever had and still have no solution other than recreating days of work with a deadline right around the corner 😄

The Problem: I Try to open a Project that I worked on last week, but I only get the Message "Error attempting to duplicate a text object. Skipping the Text Layer ( 76 § 53 )" multiple times.

In the first Case it stopped loading the rest of the project as well and opened empty.
Then I tried the last Auto Safe File, where I still got the Message, but it loaded more of the Project, with Essential Grafics complaining that it can´t find some layers (of course). In this Version was not only some text missing but also some Graphic elements (pictures) and Shape Layers.
I could understand that maybe my workflow of just duplicating Layers of shapes or text to have a new one is unsafe?!, but i never had a problem with that in the past with even bigger Projects.
The crazy part is, that I found some older Versions of the Project in my GDrive, wich worked back then (early last week) , but now they have the same problem.
I even tried to open the project in a new project - same problem

I dont know what to doo.. While writing this i thought that it is maybe an update? and it could be the 18.2.1 update from last week?! (shame on me that i still have those on automatic) I will try an older version.

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If it's text realted, start by considering whether or onot you may have added a different font recently or changed a language setting on your system. From the warning it simply seems to me that for whatever reason AE is simply unable to access this stuff which may be a Unicode/ OpenType issue with a "bad" font messing up the font list. Similarly, I could imagine that specific text expressions may cause mayhem, so check that, too.

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Kpt_Drewno

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I ran into the same issue in AE 2025. Deleting the problematic font from Creative Cloud fixed it.

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stunning_Cosmos6155

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Hi I am your AI and I will be happy to help you

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David259165749pxm

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Solved this a different way. Couldn't recall which fonts were in the project and it wouldnt open so I wasn't able to start uninstalling them.

My fix:

I disabled Adobe Fonts in Creative cloud, then was able to open project and figure out which fonts were in there.

Then uninstalled the fonts from the pc.

Reactivated adobe fonts

Restarted AE and it works

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Islam5E1E

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Thanks a lot, All I have made is disable all active fonts in creative cloud

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Promotions -5FA0

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This works like a charm. Thanks a lot for sharing it!

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BMcCarty

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A useful thread. I had the same error messages, and had the font in question installed already. I downloaded the font and reinstalled it, and the AE Project opened. For whatever reason, simply installing the font di dthe trick for me.

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paulm93445740

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Thanks for your input. Yes, I've found sometimes there are issues with
fonts that are available in the Adobe font library named the same as others
you may have already installed from outside the Adobe library. Still having
trouble with some of these issues despite deleting from the windows font
folder and updating/activating the fonts via Adobe font library. Source
Sans Pro still gives me issues in AE saying it's missing when opening older
projects.

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stefanh63668719

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same here! in my case it seems the trouble was coming from using some google fonts. after deinstalling them, my project opened without any error bla bla.

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dharmap20317070

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yup same here, and I already purge the cache restarted my computer and everything. Turns out just delete the google font and you're good to go lol

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fanboy666

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Had the same problem, that was solved in my case by:

1. Cleaning all cache & database

2. Re-install all used fonts

It opened up all Comps again and I was happy knowing that not everyone had this solved.

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Salwa32843985dqgx

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it worked for me! thanks a lot!

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jorgetortosa

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it worked for me! thanks a lot!

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emma21777326lbif

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Thank, I was about to say the say the same.

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MyleniumCorrect answer

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If it's text realted, start by considering whether or onot you may have added a different font recently or changed a language setting on your system. From the warning it simply seems to me that for whatever reason AE is simply unable to access this stuff which may be a Unicode/ OpenType issue with a "bad" font messing up the font list. Similarly, I could imagine that specific text expressions may cause mayhem, so check that, too.

Mylenium

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JonnyhbeeAuthor

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Hey Mylenium,

thank you for your quick reply!! And I think youre exactly right. I use some Google fonts in the project and after opening it with 18.2 it just says that it cant read the font database. So I will try to fix that problem now!

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