Ongoing issue – damaged project files in Premiere Pro (Beta)

Report · Oct 03, 2025

After a random crash, when I go to reopen my project, Premiere reports “The project appears to be damaged, it cannot be opened.”

I have already tried, without success:

Opening Auto-Save versions (all returned the same error)
Installing the previous versions of Premiere Beta
Attempting to open the project in an older, stable version of Premiere Pro
Using third-party tools to inspect or edit the project file

The first time this happened, I assumed it was a one-off. I rebuilt my project from scratch, only to have the exact same thing happen again.

This issue has already cost me significant lost work and time.

Report · Oct 03, 2025

Frustrating!

I've DM'd you my (Adobe) email address; we'd be interested in getting a copy of the broken project.

It's very weird that all auto-saves return the same error. Were all of the auto-saves, created after you experienced that random crash?

Also, out of curiosity; what 3rd party tools did you use, to inspect/edit the project file?

Report · Oct 03, 2025

Thanks, I've just emailed it to you.

All auto saves (around from around a 3 hour period of editing) except the first one - but that was useless to me as it was so early on. They were all created before the crash.

I used VS code to look at the file but as a humble video editor it's way over my head to be honest.

Report · Oct 03, 2025

> They were all created before the crash.

Interesting: that suggests that the project was corrupted before the random crash, and that auto-save was dutifully saving that corruption...

>I used VS code to look at the file but as a humble video editor it's way over my head to be honest.

It's not just you; .prproj files aren't written, to be human-friendly. 🙂

Report · Oct 08, 2025

I just tried this in today's build 25.6.0 build 92. Not seeing the issue at all.

Windows 11