Flash crashed, now "error opening"

[McBinkles]

Okay.
When I went to test my movie, flash froze then crashed. When i tried to open the file again, i had an error message that said "error opening file (filename)" followed by one that said "Javascript error: could not find file (filename)"

Someone who was helping me with this pointed out that when the .fla is opened as a .zip file, an object named "contents" has a file size of 0 which i'm told could be a problem. I extracted the 'contents' from the most recent working backup (a week old) and replaced the 'contents' in the corrupted version with it. When I tried to run this in flash I got "unknown file format".

Also: When Flash crashed on me, the .swf of the movie disappeared, so that can't be used to solve the problem as far as i know.

[egg82]

odd, but you should never dig inside of an .fla and start changing things that way. It's never the right answer.

have you tried searching google for something like ".fla repair"?

[McBinkles]

At 8/7/12 01:55 AM, egg82 wrote: have you tried searching google for something like ".fla repair"?

I've of course tried google, but I haven't gotten any results so far that had the same problem as me.
I also probably should have mentioned in my first post that I'm using flash pro 8.