Premiere Elements 8 can't open any project

Bruce,

Welcome to the forum.

Where is the PREL (Project file) located on your system?

Good luck,

Hunt

Bruce,

Sometimes, I think that computers just need to rest, or something like that. Maybe they need for the phase of the Moon to change?

The important part is that you can now Open your Projects, and that is what is important. We may never know the "why."

Good luck,

Hunt

PS - too bad that you cannot give yourself the points, as you deserve them, just for reporting your success!

Hey Bruce -- I'm having the same problem, also on Windows  7.  This same problem happened to me 6 months ago.  I reported it to the online Adobe support, but got no help.  Eventually I worked around it on my own.  Now the problem is back and I can not open any project, even after rebooting.  The behavour that I see is that I can open a new or old project, but the Premier window shows-up as having zero size.  The bug has something to do with the Premier program thinking that the window size should be zero.  The program shows-up in the active task list, and the Alt-Tab key shows Premier window has only a window title bar (where as other active programs show-up as a thumbnail image of their window contents), and the system taskbar also shows the Premier program as active but only as a window title bar (see attached image below)

When I reported to the online Adobe support forum that I had worked around the problem, the answer was something like the answer you got.  Adobe does not seem to be interested in understanding and fixing the problem, they are just relieved when customers can figure-out work-around on their own.  This really bites me where it hurts.  I'm burning non-productive hours because of their bugs, and they don't care enough about the bugs to get engineering to fix them.  It's things like this that make me look for another software vendor.

Hi Bruce -- Hello kindred soul.  I've been programming for 42 years

now, and it always confounds me when these software companies put more

emphasis on features and advertising than on creating a quality

product that we can use.  If other appliances worked as poorly as

software, the attorney general would be involved!  I do understand

that bugs are unavoidable, but ignoring then is inexcusable.

Thanks for you note.  I've found another work-around, so I'm back to

being productive.

Thanks, Jim

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:40 AM, bruce.romney@verizon.net

Hello,

I have the exact same problem as you with PE8 and Win7 (x64), and a reboot also helped me. But the problem came back the next time I tried to open PE. Have you expreienced the same? It cant be that we have to reboot every time we want to use PE?

Best regards

Øystein Morvik

Norway

Hello Øystein Morvik,

I've run into this problem a couple times, and I've managed to get around it.  I now believe the problem is due to the Premiere's design of starting with its window maximized,  and then automatically resizing the window to what it thinks is the size  that I want after it loads the project.  When the bug is active, the size seems to be zero, or  minimized, or off the screen, or who knows what.  Just not anything that  I can see.  The Windwos task list shows that the program is running, and the little thumbnail that Windows 7 shows of running  programs on the taskbar makes be think the window has been resized so  that it is zero pixels wide and zero pixels high.

I've included links to the two discussions that I started on this bug.  There may be something in those threads that could help you get around this:

  http://forums.adobe.com/thread/775008

  http://forums.adobe.com/thread/704857

Hope this does not cost you hours of unproductive time

-- Old Pa