Hello. I am running AE CC 2017 on Windows 10 / i7 processor with 128 GB of RAM.
I chose not to upgrade to 2018 just yet after seeing the way font selection works (I emailed Adobe about it). Anyway - yesterday I was working on a project and AE froze. I couldn't get windows to stop the AE process, so I ended up hard resetting my machine. After a few re-starts and mandatory windows updates, I got my computer booted back up. I opened CC 2017, open my project file, and I get the AE warning: Unable to import file "<filename>" as project (bad format or not readable). OK. So, I went to my auto save folder and each of the 9 auto saves that I have for this project show me the same error message.
Hmmmm .... so - I went to AE CC 2018 and tried to open the project and I got the same message. I started a new project in both versions and tried to import each of the 10 "aep" files and I get the same message. I can open up other "aep" files in After Effects, just not this one. I'm at a loss as to why this is happening for this project. There must have been some sort of corruption from the start. From the time I started the project, I never closed it out, so I never had to open it until today. Any suggestions I can get will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!