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#1 2011-08-01 20:32:21
Damaged File
I had a 16 thousand kilabyte project that I had worked on for 2 weeks in technology class and the morning of the day it is due, it comes up with this message: Could not read project; file may be damaged (key not found). My heart was, of course, broken, but I was baffled at what had caused this to happen!!! Has this happened to anyone else. Is there anything to do about it. P.S. Always Make Extra Copies Of Projects!!!
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#4 2011-08-01 23:40:39
Re: Damaged File
That *is* very strange! Had you been transferring it between computers often? Sometimes that can corrupt the file a wee bit.
The size of the project is irrelevant when saving; however, had you been planning to upload the project you may have run into issues there.
Other than that, I'm truly perplexed as to the origin of this error... Maybe somebody else can offer a better explanation, though. 
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#6 2011-08-03 21:36:36
- jji7skyline
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Re: Damaged File
I sometimes get this... I just ignore it. This is the reason why I always save changes in a new copy. Sometimes I forget and I pay the price 
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#7 2011-08-04 10:42:33
- silentslayer7
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Re: Damaged File
poemon1 wrote:
how much music/scripts/pictures/sprites did you use if it is over 10000 kb (i think) the project wont upload or save correctly and that is what could cause it
how does your sig know what im running?
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#8 2011-08-04 10:43:38
- silentslayer7
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i got it once but it just went away and worked.
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#9 2011-08-07 11:34:54
- spartan4740
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Re: Damaged File
i have the same problem but with a file 70,363 kb ¿how i fix it?
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#10 2011-08-07 14:17:55
- MyRedNeptune
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Re: Damaged File
That error means that the file is corrupted. I don't think there is any way to retrieve it, sorry.
I got that once when I exited Scratch before my project finished saving (sometimes it's hard to tell and in earlier versions there used to be no "would you like to save before quitting" box). Are you sure you didn't do that as well?
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#11 2011-08-16 13:45:24
Re: Damaged File
silentslayer7 wrote:
poemon1 wrote:
how much music/scripts/pictures/sprites did you use if it is over 10000 kb (i think) the project wont upload or save correctly and that is what could cause it
how does your sig know what im running?
I just got it from danasoft. I got a new one.
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