Hi, I’ve been working on a video using shotcut and everything went fine until today. As soon as i wanted to open the file today, Shotcut gave me a “Failed to open file” notification. I saved my file as I did usual the day before and now it can’t be opened
Your file is not recoverable.
You’ll have to use a backup copy if you have one.
This is what your file looks like in Notepad ++
When it should like this:
You can read more on it here:
In the future I would advise you to do File > Save As after you initially save the project. This allows you to save the file to different folder/file locations along with changing the file name.