CS5 crashing turns .fla file into unexpected file format

[Dr__Acula]

While working in Flash Professional CS5, the program crashed and when I open the last version of the flash file I saved it tells me it's an unexpected file format. What is this about? It is an .fla file. How can I recover this file and is there an auto save feature in CS5? Please help

[kglad]

your fla is corrupted.

you may (but probably won't) be able to salvage some of your work.

1. copy the fla so you have a duplicate and original.

2. rename the duplicate to a rar file

3. open the rar file with winrar and repair it.

4. rename the repaired rar to a fla and open in flash.

5. if that succeeds, you're lucky. read below because that will never happen again.

6. if that fails, rename the repaired renamed fla back to a rar file and unrar it.  you may be able to recover some assets

resolve to never encounter that again by saving your fla projects frequently with different names.  i append _v000, _v001, _v002 etc to the file name.

i created a jsfl that does that automatically and created a shortcut to the jsfl file so pressing ctrl-alt-s saves with the next incremented file name suffix.

[Dr__Acula]

Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately it did not work. Thanks again.

Gary Wutkowski

gwutkowski@i-t-tech.com<mailto:gwutkowski@i-t-tech.com262.251.9702>

262.251.9702 Ext. 114

Technical Illustrator/Animator

IT Technologies

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Germantown, WI 53022

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[kglad]

you're welcome.