I cant open the project

[tactvt64323508]

I've been working on an animation for a week. I opened it yesterday and everything was fine. I saved it, after that I closed Adobe Animate and turned off my computer. So today I opened the same project and for some reason I cant open it: A javascript error occurred, the project can't be opened.

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[kglad]

can you open animate?

can you open a different fla?

[tactvt64323508]

I can open animate and a different fla. There is just an error with that single fla

[kglad · Accepted solution]

then you have a corrupted fla.

there's nothing that's likely to fix that.  you can try the following but i've never seen it work:

rename the fla to a rar>use winrar to repair it>rename the repaired file to a fla>try to open in animate.

you can also unrar the renamed file and recover some assets (sometimes).

but most likely this will be a learning experience: always save production files (whether created by animate or otherwise) with increasing version names and 10 to 30 minutes to prevent the total loss of work.

[tactvt64323508]

THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS WORKED I CANT THANK YOU ENOUGH!!!

[kglad]

i'm surprised that worked it's such an unlikely-to-succeed manuever, but you're welcome.