Scratch

colorfusion wrote:

I have a project that I have been working on for a very long time now, it was probably going to be one of my last major scratch projects before I moved on to something else.
Yesterday after I had pretty much finished with the project I saved it then updated the backup, as always I made sure it saved properly.

Now the backup and current version have just stopped working. I am getting "Could not read project; file may be damaged: (key not found)" every time I load them up and I am getting quite frustrated at it.
I really hope there is a way to fix this since all the other topics on this I have seen were about pulling the USB out too soon. Most of the data seems to still be in the file and I will be really annoyed if there is no fix to this.

Check around the scripts for one with a red outline. Try to figure out what's wrong and then fix it and try uploading again. If that doesn't fix it, than play it over with the green flag, and if something seems really glitchy, fix that, and upload it. If THAT doesn't fix the project, look around your Trash for a file named scratchthumbs, remove it from the trash, and if THAT doesn't fix it, than I don't know what to tell you.

This looks more like a problem with Scratch rather than the file itself (unlike what the dialog suggested).

Try redownloading a files-only version of Scratch and opening the project from within that version. If that doesn't work, try on a different computer.

If that doesn't, work, I can't think of anything else to do except for trace back the problem using Squeak. That requires an advanced knowledge of Squeak which few Scratchers have, and takes time. I don't think it's worth it.

What ARE files-only versions of scratch?! And what IS squeak?! The problem was no better today; It starts to load, it slows down, that box pops up, and I feel like screaming. I NEED HELP!!!

That happened to me too. I think it's happening more and more to people 
I have a vague idea of what might have happened. When it happened to me, I changed the project and decided I didn't like it that way, so for some reason, instead of clicking 'don't save changes' then going back to it, I opened the project again, when it was not changed for the worse, and did not save the other one. Maybe it got confused XD I tried importing the project even, but it froze up a bunch of times and I just gave up.
There probably isn't a way to save your project. Sorry 

Argh, This Happened To Me Too.
Tried Using Microsoft Visual 2010 To Fix The File. No Luck.
I Also Tried Opening The File In Diffrent Versions Of Scratch, Still No Luck.
Prehaps Someone Shoud Contact The Scratch Team About This...

AnamatronicKoopa wrote:

There's a "Scratchthumbs" file on my desktop. I haven't tried opening it, but I think I will.

That's only to store the data about how thumbnails appear in Scratch.

Scratch takes time to save, and if you saved it before the error, you should have waited a bit.

Look at my Offline/Online status you can click on it what is going on?

This happened to me too    I was working on a project for days now it was going to be one of my best projects ever and now THIS happens!

I feel your pain.........

It would be though. I'll try re-downloading, thanks. Do you know any way I could export the sprites or anything without being able to open it? Because that's the only problem I have with restarting, I don't have my sprites saved anywhere else. No need to tell me how stupid it is not to backup any of my game, I already know.

This stinks...