Is this corrupt save file recoverable?

Leaving this solution here for anyone that has tried everything on the adobe forums and isn't getting lucky. I found this solution on youtube by a guy called Alvin Yen... The video is a bit hard to understand, but it worked for me. The solution is simpler than it sounds, it took me about 3-4 minutes, including downloading the simple piece of software.

1. Backup your project file just in case.

2. Download SQLite (free software, DB Browser for SQLite)

3. Open SQLite, click on "Open Database" and open the "odb.sqlite3" file located in Your project>Ch Data>repo.noindex

4. Click on the "Browse Data" tab on SQLite, then go under "Size" and filter for the value 252 (type "252" where it says "Filter") 

5. If you have multiple results, click the top result where it says "BLOB" (under the "OID" tab, it might say something else)

6. On the right side of the window, under the "Edit Database Cell", make sure the Mode is set to "Binary"

7. You should see a code that looks like this "00 01 2c e9 af 58 78 95 aa 85 c4 cd 96 5a 11 ed 70 08 28 16" in the "Edit Database Cell". If not, make sure you clicked at the correct box of the result. The value will probably be split over two lines.

8. Copy that code (Make sure you get all of it, and check that it's correct)

9. Go to the "master file" located in "Your project>Ch Data>repo.noindex>refs>heads" and open it with a text editor (ex. Notepad or Notepad++)

10. Delete any text that might exist in it, and paste the copied code (remove any spaces if they are not removed automatically, and make sure it's in a single line)

11. Click save and try to open your project again.

As far as I understand, this essentially tells Character Animator to load the exact previous autosave, which will solve the problem if your last save became corrupted for some reason. This worked for me and I only lost the past few hours of work instead of the weeks of work I had in that file. Hope this helps!

Hi, I am getting a similar problem. I did not have a power outage although my Character animator was working fine and then later today this project stopped opening and says this. It also says on the file has zero bytes. Is there any way of bringing it back?

Hi there,

I'm getting the same error:
Libgit2 error 1(4?Corrupted loose reference file: refs/heads/master) returned from git_revparse_single(&headP, repoP, specZ)

Also happened to me after a crash while working in Illustrator.

It's affecting both my primary file and a backup. Both use the same Illustrator file as a puppet.

I tried the solution above but my project folders don't contain any sqlite3 files.

cheers

For anyone dealing with this issue... First zip your project just in case. Next, rename your Ch Data/repo.noindex/objects/odb.sqlite3 to odb.sqlite3OLD.  Next, rename your conflicted file (ie. Conflicted copy from.... .sqlite3) file to odb.sqlite3

Now try opening the project again and it should work. For whatever reason, CA is creating a conflicted copy even when working on a single machine. It's possible it's creative cloud related since that's the directory we are using.

Same issue here. Is there an official path we can take to resolve this issue vs posting to this thread?