Could not load scene into memory. Your document may be damaged."

Question

My document (and recover file of it) were recently corrupted when I was rendering another project and animating in Adobe Animate 2024 at the same time. Yes, I know it was a bad idea to put my laptop to so much work at one time. A message of "Could not load scene into memory. Your document may be damaged." is being displayed (attached screenshot). I tried doing all the advised things, but they don't work:

I opened it on older, 2023 version
I renamed it to .rar file and tried fixing archives, nothing.
I tried importing an .xml file, but it says one line of the code is broken (attached screenshot).

Other files of this project are fine, but this scene is not, and I will have to re-do it if I don't recover it. I could also just try to get the assets back themselves, and just re-do the animation. Is there any other way to recover at least some parts of it?

I tried attaching the damaged file itself here, but I can't do that. If there is a way to do it, then maybe someone also please tell, so that someone clever could see it and inspect what's wrong.

kglad · Answer

you could try using winrar to repair it. that works about 10% of the time.

you could check for a recovery file, if you had that enabled.

and you could save as an xfl to recover assets used.

finally, save frequently with increasing version number appended to the file name.

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