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Frans Meijer · November 5th, 2011, 09:00 AM

Get the message that the project file is most likely corrupted or of an unkown fromat.

Are there known remedies (the .bak yields the same the message, the program apparently overwrites the previous bak when opening the project ???) or is this a case of un-install and use something else?

John Stakes · November 5th, 2011, 09:51 AM

Does the file open? Do other projects work normally?

Try googling your exact error message. Also check for any patches for the software. Check your hdd for errors.

JS

Jeff Harper · November 5th, 2011, 01:11 PM

Try Saving As to another location, and then see what happens.

Frans Meijer · November 5th, 2011, 02:03 PM

Good question.
1) Other projects do open normally.
2) The project doesn't open at all, so I don't think I can save as

Right now, changing folders will not pop up the message to search for missing files, but I am pretty sure when I tried to open it for the first time this afternoon it did spend some time opening files before giving the message. When I make the media files unavailable it will pop up the message right away

Jeff Harper · November 5th, 2011, 04:16 PM

Of course you can't save as if it won't open, don't know what I was thinking!

Frans Meijer · November 5th, 2011, 05:12 PM

Well, trid to move/rename it but that didn't do anything. Seems it's in the projectfile, rather then the media, though I'd like to clean up any cached data, just to make sure that's not the problem. Any idea where I can find those?

And maybe open it from Admin account, who knows maybe there's a problem with user-rights

Jeff Harper · November 5th, 2011, 05:18 PM

Have you run diskcheck yet? It's a long shot, but as Johns suggests I would try that anyway. Possible it could be the source of the problem. So if it does not fix it, it's very good to run anyway. You know how, right?

Wendy Sarrett · November 5th, 2011, 06:30 PM

If you have spinite I might even try that...it's been known to rescue data. I would also back up the media before you do anything so at worst case at least you wont lose that.

Edward Troxel · November 6th, 2011, 07:26 AM

Won't help today but for the future you could use my Auto Save custom command which will save a date/time stamped version every x minutes. Then you would have had a backup from "x" minutes ago you could have opened and continued on. Auto Save installs when you install Excalibur but is free to use and will continue working even after Excalibur expires.

Frans Meijer · November 6th, 2011, 07:47 AM

That's all-right, thank you. Neat idea to put in a plugin but I guess I can make a script. I never expected Vegas to fail me, I am used to a crash-less experience with it. Ah well, lesson learned.

November 5th, 2011, 09:00 AM	#1
Frans Meijer Regular Crew Join Date: May 2011 Location: Netherlands Posts: 37	corrupted project Get the message that the project file is most likely corrupted or of an unkown fromat. Are there known remedies (the .bak yields the same the message, the program apparently overwrites the previous bak when opening the project ???) or is this a case of un-install and use something else?

November 5th, 2011, 09:51 AM	#2
John Stakes Major Player Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 558	Re: corrupted project Does the file open? Do other projects work normally? Try googling your exact error message. Also check for any patches for the software. Check your hdd for errors. JS

November 5th, 2011, 01:11 PM	#3
Jeff Harper Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH Posts: 8,425	Re: corrupted project Try Saving As to another location, and then see what happens. __________________ "The horror of what I saw on the timeline cannot be described."

November 5th, 2011, 02:03 PM	#4
Frans Meijer Regular Crew Join Date: May 2011 Location: Netherlands Posts: 37	Re: corrupted project Good question. 1) Other projects do open normally. 2) The project doesn't open at all, so I don't think I can save as Right now, changing folders will not pop up the message to search for missing files, but I am pretty sure when I tried to open it for the first time this afternoon it did spend some time opening files before giving the message. When I make the media files unavailable it will pop up the message right away

November 5th, 2011, 04:16 PM	#5
Jeff Harper Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH Posts: 8,425	Re: corrupted project Of course you can't save as if it won't open, don't know what I was thinking! __________________ "The horror of what I saw on the timeline cannot be described."

November 5th, 2011, 05:12 PM	#6
Frans Meijer Regular Crew Join Date: May 2011 Location: Netherlands Posts: 37	Re: corrupted project Well, trid to move/rename it but that didn't do anything. Seems it's in the projectfile, rather then the media, though I'd like to clean up any cached data, just to make sure that's not the problem. Any idea where I can find those? And maybe open it from Admin account, who knows maybe there's a problem with user-rights

November 5th, 2011, 05:18 PM	#7
Jeff Harper Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH Posts: 8,425	Re: corrupted project Have you run diskcheck yet? It's a long shot, but as Johns suggests I would try that anyway. Possible it could be the source of the problem. So if it does not fix it, it's very good to run anyway. You know how, right? __________________ "The horror of what I saw on the timeline cannot be described."

November 5th, 2011, 06:30 PM	#8
Wendy Sarrett New Boot Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Reston, VA Posts: 8	Re: corrupted project If you have spinite I might even try that...it's been known to rescue data. I would also back up the media before you do anything so at worst case at least you wont lose that.

November 6th, 2011, 07:26 AM	#9
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	Re: corrupted project Won't help today but for the future you could use my Auto Save custom command which will save a date/time stamped version every x minutes. Then you would have had a backup from "x" minutes ago you could have opened and continued on. Auto Save installs when you install Excalibur but is free to use and will continue working even after Excalibur expires. __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

November 6th, 2011, 07:47 AM	#10
Frans Meijer Regular Crew Join Date: May 2011 Location: Netherlands Posts: 37	Re: corrupted project That's all-right, thank you. Neat idea to put in a plugin but I guess I can make a script. I never expected Vegas to fail me, I am used to a crash-less experience with it. Ah well, lesson learned.