My .fla file is corrupted and winrar's repair is not working

[gabsuave]

Hey,

I was carefully working on an animation and saving a lot of backup files, but my PC burned out and when I restarted and tried to open my .FLA files, they couldn't be opened anymore. It goes on to say, "Could not load scene into memory. Your document may be damaged."

After hours of searching, I found this way to repair .xfl using Winrar, but it still didn't work. My file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RoYKS2XpOcnFXUtoAGk03-uhrptvxhrX/view?usp=sharing

The strangest thing is that I was saving multiple backups but almost ALL of them got corrupted too. Most I didn't even open anymore (?).

Please someone save my life, my deadline is today.

[kglad · Accepted solution]

if renaming your fla to a zip and then using winrar to repair the zip file failed to allow you to open the repaired fla and inability to recover assets from the unzipped repaired file, your last hope is an auto-save file.

p.s. to prevent this save frequently with increasing version number appended to the file name and periodically close and reopen the last version to confirm it's uncorrupted.