Error opening file

[daniell77777564]

i am getting and error message “an error occurred opening file...” - I have restarted the computer several times and still

same problem... can anybody help?

[kglad · Accepted solution]

if it's only one fla, it's probably corrupt.

you can try:

1. renaming to a rar

2. using winrar to repair it

3. rename the repaired rar to a fla

4. try opening the repaired fla

[abrahamn752]

how do you repair with rar?

[kglad]

winrar has a repair option.

[abrahamn752]

ok, but when i do that a get a new message saying this happens:

! C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\Aniamtion Folder\Personal Animations\Ash - Copy.fla: Corrupt header is found

! C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\Aniamtion Folder\Personal Animations\Ash - Copy.fla: No files repaired

     and the original page says this:
"

---> RAR

Searching for recovery record

---> recovery record not found

Searching for recovery record

---> recovery record not found

Build C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\Aniamtion Folder\Personal Animations\rebuilt.Ash - Copy.rar

Done"

What do i do now

[kglad]

see if you can recover assets from the unrared file and start over, and learn to save back-ups with increasing version numbers.

[abrahamn752]

How do i "recover assets from the unrared file" sorry, im not very tech savvy

[kglad]

unrar it and inspect the folders.

[abrahamn752]

how do i actually inspect the folders (i am on windows)

[kglad]

use your file explore.  windows explorer comes with your os.

[abrahamn752]

well, that didn't help I think im just gonna start from scratch, but than you for helping (even though im stupid)

[kglad]

the recovery process with winrar usually fails.  it may work about 10% of the time.  (seat-of-the-pants guestimate.)

if you did not change the default animate settings, you probably have an auto-recovery file saved.  check for it:

win: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Adobe\<animate version>\en_US\Configuration

mac: Users/<username>/Application Support/Adobe/<animate/flash version>/en_US/Configuration/