An Error Occurred Opening File .fla
Tag Flash Professional CS5.5 Jul 24, 2012/Crash, Errors, Flash Professional CS5.5, General, Troubleshooting/sudeshna [Unexpected File Format] Error | Opening Flash files | Flash Professional CS5.5 You may encounter errors when you attempt opening or saving files using Flash Professional CS5.5. This article explains about the errors and Flash CS5.5 updater released to handle such errors. Firstly, here's a list of all forum threads that were posted reporting similar issues: ISSUES FORUM POSTS "Flash cannot parse this document" http://forums.adobe.com/message/3564708#3564708 http://forums.adobe.com/message/3621958#3621958 "Failed to open document" error when trying to open file” http://forums.adobe.com/message/3593589#3593589 http://forums.adobe.com/message/3638332#3638332 "An error occurred opening file…" error when trying to open file http://forums.adobe.com/message/3593589#3593589 "Failed to open document" http://forums.adobe.com/message/3603110#3603110 http://forums.adobe.com/message/3615190#3615190 Unexpected File Format. Unable to open a file http://forums.adobe.com/message/3714690#3714690 http://forums.adobe.com/message/2892610#2892610 Solution To address the above problem, Adobe released an updater for Flash Pro CS5.5 (version 11.5.1). This solves the issues related to XFL file corruption. Adobe Update Description 9/15/2011 – This updater contains fixes for opening and saving some Flash Professional files (FLAs) in CS5.5 and other bug fixes. Known Issues with the Adobe Updater • CS5 & CS5.5: symbol saved in XFL format (compressed or uncompressed) is corrupted if its name has special character. • Window only: XFL Compressed: Data loss when saving to a file with hidden checkbox checked in the Window OS properties dialog. • Window only: XFL Uncompressed: cannot save fla error when saving .xfl fla with hidden checkbox checked in the Window OS properties dialog. • (Win Only ) Unable to save a file on Network / desktop once we get unable to save error message while saving a fla to xfl 2nd time. Recovering the damaged or corrupt files Change the extension of .fla to .rar. Open it using the WinRAR application. Winrar throws a warning stating that you attempted to open damaged archive, you can safely Ignore the warning. Go to Tools->
lies ahead of us, and behind. Have you drunk your fill? How to Recover a Corrupted Flash CS 5.5/CS6 FLA File How to Recover a Corrupted Flash CS 5.5/CS6 FLA File August 24, 2011 Daffodilistic Due to some strange issue with a computer at work here, a FLA file was corrupted for some strange reason and we couldn't open it. A little googling to check details on the FLA and XFL format reveals that the FLA file can be unzipped, and with some luck, most of the data can be recovered. Here's how: 1) Rename the file extension of the FLA file to ZIP 2) Use Windows Explorer to unzip the file to a folder - as of time of this writing, 7-Zip 9.20 cannot open or unzip the file, so its best to http://blogs.adobe.com/animate/tag/flash-professional-cs5-5/ stick with Windows Explorer (at least on Windows 7 anyway) 3) ZIP the folder and rename as a FLA file 4) Open in Flash CS5.5, and check your work. If its all OK (or most of the stuff that can be recovered is shown), re-save as a new file 5) Always, always, backup! UPDATE 13 Nov 2012: It seems that the Flash CS6 has changed its ZIP header files, resulting in extraction errors! If the above method doesn't work, you can try DiskInternals http://www.daffodilistic.com/2011/08/24/how-to-recover-a-corrupted-flash-cs5-5-fla-file/ ZIP Repair Technology Post navigation NEXT2011 Birthday Resolutions PREVIOUS Privacy Risks in Corporate Social Networking 13 thoughts on “How to Recover a Corrupted Flash CS 5.5/CS6 FLA File” Ryan says: August 8, 2012 at 1:26 am It worked! You're the man! Saved me hours of work. 😀 irritated person says: November 30, 2013 at 5:39 am this thing is so stupid, did not work, there goes a year of work. thanks for nothing, how about a solution that works Passerby says: February 12, 2014 at 12:50 am Ass Trevor says: September 12, 2012 at 11:23 pm You just saved me hours of work. What a star!!!!!!!!! Eric says: January 24, 2013 at 4:00 am Awesome! I used Disk Internals ZIP repair on a CS6 file. Works great! MBworks says: May 17, 2013 at 4:19 am using cs6,It didn't work. but when i tried Eric's way, man, I'm so glad. thanks man! Thomas says: May 28, 2013 at 8:55 pm Amazing! Thank you so much, I used Zip Repair and it worked fine! Saved extremely much time!! FR says: June 15, 2013 at 7:48 am Not work on me. im using CS.5 T.T AS says: July 19, 2013 at 1:51 am Not working for me. CS6 file. I used DiskInternals ZIP Repair. Recovered file was empty RRipper says: July 30, 2013 at 6:31 am It worked! Zip the file, then extract it to a new folder. Ignore the error message and inside this new f
opening file If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?696384-Error-occurred-opening-file the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Results 1 to 4 of 4 Thread: Error occurred opening file Tweet Thread http://www.scottgmorgan.com/saving-a-flash-cs4-file-in-flash-cs5-causes-corruption/ Tools Show Printable Version Email this Page… Subscribe to this Thread… Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode 07-25-2006,07:06 AM #1 sir_seagill View Profile View Forum Posts Junior Member Join an error Date May 2006 Posts 7 Error occurred opening file well, I'm working on a flash, save, close flash, shut down computer. I come back to it a few days later and when I click on the "open recent" or the .fla file, an error window says: "An error occurrsed opening file "zzzzzzz.fla". The only thing I can think of is that that fla. is big (10.7mb) cos I an error occurred have a movie clip in there that I'm rotoscoping and that I'll delete after. Every other file works and they're all quite small. Any ideas? Reply With Quote 03-24-2007,04:56 PM #2 westy2005 View Profile View Forum Posts Member Join Date Jun 2005 Posts 94 Hi sir_seagill, I am having the exact same problem! And I am desperately trying to fix it as I really need the file to open. I have no idea, like you why it would suddenly not open any more? Have you had any luck solving the problem, I will keep trying myself and will let you know if I have any success! Reply With Quote 03-24-2007,07:28 PM #3 sir_seagill View Profile View Forum Posts Junior Member Join Date May 2006 Posts 7 haha, this was ages ago and I've long given up on it. Tried some file cleaning programs but they didn't work. Shame too, I was really enjoying it and now because of it I've scrapped that project. Lesson learned is Flash sometimes randomly stuffs up and you should save backups. Reply With Quote 03-26-2007,09:40 AM #4 westy2005 View Profile View Forum Posts Member Join Date Jun 2005 Posts 94 Thanks for replying sir_seagill, sorry you didn't get th
scott on Sep 14, 2010 in Actionscript, Adobe, Blog, Bugs, CS5, Flash, Source Code, Technology | 11 comments I have read about this issue in the past, but I have never ran into it myself. Most likely because I don't do a lot of work with FLA files, I usually work with Actionscript projects in Flash Builder. Well, last night, my luck ran out, and this issue hit me full force. And of course, I was working on a file I hadn't committed to a source repository, a.k.a. - no backup. Needless to say, my stomach hit the floor when I saw the "Flash can not parse this document" error message. When I tried a second time, I got a different error message, something along these lines: An error occurred opening file 'Users/smorgan/work/project/src/someFile.fla'
The following JavaScript error(s) occurred:
Cannot find file Users/smorgan/work/project/src/someFile.fla.
Before I saw these error messages I had opened up an fla file I had last worked on in Flash CS4 in my new and shiny Flash CS5 IDE. There was nothing special about this file, very minimal code on the timeline, mainly just timeline animations and library assets/MovieClips. When I attempted to save the document after I made a few changes I got the standard "This file will be converted from Flash CS4 to Flash CS5…" confirmation message. Pretty standard practice, this type of message has always occurred in the Flash IDE as far back as I can remember. Naturally I clicked "Save" and everything appeared to be normal. I even made a few more changes, saved my work, and published a swf without any problems. Armageddon didn't set in until I closed the file, or the IDE and attempted to reopen the newly saved CS5 FLA again. Normally I always check my work into a source repository and this corrupted file wouldn't have been such a huge issue because I would have had a backup. However, this time there was no backup so naturally I thought I was screwed. Then I remembered that during the CS5 beta program I played around with the new FLA format which is really an archive of files, a ZIP file. I changed the .fla file extension to .zip and attempted to unzip the file, thinking I may be able to restore something from the original file. I'm on a Mac and by default ZIP files are unarchived with the native Archive Utility when they are double clicked on. Double clicking the .zip file didn't unarchive the file, instead it added a second file extension .cpgz which still had the standard OSX archive file icon. I tried unarchiving this file again and nothing happened, just removed the .cpgz extension and if I clicked on the file again it added the .cpgz extension again. A