Files has disappeared and were replaced by generic pics

[Sylvain Martin]

Hello to all.

After working around 4 days on a new project on After Effects, it was the time for the rendering step.

So I went to the "Add to the rendering file" (sorry if it is not exactly the right terms here, as I am french, and with a french version of AE)

I just did 1 thing : I changed the "destination" for the rendered file (as there were none registered yet).

A few second later and my AE file seemed to be destructed. All my pictures have been transformed into 7 colored generic pics. When I opened again the file I had this message : 22 files can not be found since last record.

I opened older saved files of the same work, andfor all  I have the same strange process.

What did I do wrong ? Thank you for your help. 

[Miguel Reza]

I have similar or maybe the same question.

Yesterday I opened a project and all went fine. Today, after update the new version of after effects I open the project and all the archives are missing. They are in the same place, in the same folder. I try to add them again (reload them) but the programme doesn't recognize my png files!. I tried to to open a new poject and import that files, it seems that the programme can not open them now, as if they were non supported files (I had to check the "show all files" to open them). And a window warning with red logo sais: "No se ha podido conectar con el proyecto de Adobe Dynamic Link", .---> We can not connect with the Adobe Dynamic Link project.

I guess that's some issue related with the new update.

Please help.

Thank you

[Sylvain Martin · Accepted solution]

Hello Miguel

I forgot I made another change : I changed the name of one of my directories. The one where I stoked the .ai file I used for my project. Here is why I get this problem !

I don't know if it will help you too...

[Kevin-Monahan]

Glad all is well now for you, Stephane.

Regards,
Kevin

[Miguel Reza]

Hi!

I just came to answer you too. I uninstall and reinstall the after effects again and all works fine now. Never knows what should happen!.

[Sylvain Martin]

Glad to hear that.

It seems that we can both go back to our projects then

Regards

S.M.