corrupted file in animate

[Leo_Is_Weird]

Ive been working on an animation with my friends for 2 days straight and animate crashed on me while trying to close. 30 minutes later, i try opening the file to be hit with an error message while trying to open it. is their anything i can do to uncourupted or is their by chance a folder with the automatic recoverys?

[rayek.elfin]

Animate is prone to corrupt files under circumstances.

Obviously you saved versions of your animation under different names, right? Because that's something we should always do.

If not, your only recourse might be to try to recover some of the file contents via the WinRar method:

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1.Change the damaged file extension from .fla to .rar.
2.Open the damaged file using your WinRAR.
3.Winrar will display an error that you are about to open a damaged file, ignore this warning.
4.Select Tools>Repair Archive. This will make sure that the archive and FLA is repaired.
5.Change the file extension back to .fla

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On Mac you might find a recovery file in your library folder (if I recall correctly). In any case search for the file name on your entire machine: you might get lucky.

From another related thread:

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if you had auto-recovery enabled there's a small chance there's a non-corrupt recovery file.

for win users, open C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Adobe\<animate version>\en_US\Configuration\AutoRecoverFilenames.txt and see if there was a saved file and, if so, check the folder location listed

for mac users, check the folder (for a file with name recover_) where the fla was saved. if the fla wasn't saved, i think you're out of luck, but you can still search your computer for "recover_"

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Otherwise, unless you saved incremental versions (which you should) you may be out of luck.

@kglad  wrote a nice script to save incremental versions.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate-discussions/potentially-corrupted-fla-file/m-p/14256103

[kglad]

you can use winrar to try a repair and you can check for a recovery file.