Trying to Obtain Premiere Project Files From Recovered Data

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January 19, 2023
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Here's my problem: My hard drive crashed and the data had to be recovered. The data was recovered, but I cannot locate any of my Premiere project files even though I know there were about hundred on the crashed hard drive. I'm wondering when the data was recovered were the Premiere files converted to another format. If so, what would that format be? If not, is this just a case where the Premiere project files just were not recoverable?

Any assistance or feedback for this problem would be sincerely appreciated.

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Michael Grenadier

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Were you putting your autosaves on the same drive? I always keep the autosave folder on my media drive and save my projects in a folder on my startup drive that's automatically mirrored on dropbox. And not sure if the recovery process renamed the .prproj files to .zip that unarchiving the .zip would work. You might just need to rename the extension to .prproj. Just guessing on this, so duplicate any .zip files before trying this... If you want to discuss setting up a safer workflow in the future, post back.

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RGBAuthor

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Thanks for your feedback.

I think I've found the zip folders that may contain my Premiere project files by looking at the file size of the zip file. The file size is usually in the MB range, as opposed to the K byte range, Whith that stated, when I try to unzip the file, I get an "Error 79 - Inappropriate File Type or Format" message. And if I change .zip to .prproj and open the file with Premiere, I get a "The files appears to be damaged..." message and it won't open.

I've even tried using thre Mac Terminal to try and open the files, but no luck there either. Any further assistence would be appreciated.

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Michael Grenadier

Legend

how crazy do you want to make yourself? Seems to me, there was a way to edit the premiere project files described here a year or so ago so you should be able to view the file and see if it's actually a premiere project... Do some searching on how to adjust a premiere project so it will open in a previous version of Premiere and you should see how to actually see the contents of the file and edit it... There was also someone who would "fix" corrupt premiere project files... If you can't find anything, post back and I'll see if I can find something. Any excuse not to do the work I should be doing...