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[helene]

Continuing the discussion from Échec à l'ouverture:

Good evening. I have the latest version of shotcut 23.07.29 and I’m using Windows 11.
I have an advanced project in progress. Shotcut closed while I was working on it. I can’t reopen the project. The first message I get is: “Automatic backup files exist. Would you like to restore these files now?”, then, “This project requires a newer version of Shotcut. It was created with version 23.07.29”.
I downloaded Shotcut again. I shut down my computer and restarted. It doesn’t work. What can I do? Thanks

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[shotcut]

It seems the autosave was unable to completely save it at the same time as a crash (normally it runs independent of a crash event, on a timer). First, try to skip restoring from the autosave since that is broken. If the last saved version of the project in its original location still fails to load you need to restore a previous version from a backup.

[helene]

Thank you very much. It’s ok !!

[Elusien]

Also, read the following post:

How not to lose project files and data - Best Practices

From time to time we get queries on the forum like: My project file has somehow become corrupted, what can I do? Shotcut just crashed and my project is now screwed up, what can I do? etc… Depending on the state of the project file (XXX.mlt) you may be able to recover it by editing that file. It is after all just a text (XML) file. Before even attempting to do this always make a copy of the file in case you trash it completely while editing. If you cannot recover the project file then the nex…