Any way to recover Ulead project files?

[Jonathan Beilin]

I was using Ulead MSP6, and finished a 20 minute video. I tried to render and my computer crashed. Now I cannot open up the .dvp file... any suggestions? or am I screwed?

[Brian Ellis]

Jonathan

Depending exactly what happened, it may not be your dvp file that is haywire: it could be one of the video files it tries to call up. If you open the dvp file in a binary editor, you will find that each video file is called for several times. It requires only a single filename error to pockle the whole project (or a corrupt video file).

I doubt whether there's much chance of correcting it if you don't have a backup. This is a real problem with large projects, as backing up requires not only large resources but time, as well.

[johnpr98]

Try starting a new project & inserting the previous dvp file into it.

It worked for me once.

Good Luck

John

http://www.johnpr98.com

[Dr Mordrid]

You might also want to delete the preview and temp files as well. If one of them gets whacked it'll also cause problems.

Dr. Mordrid

[Jonathan Beilin]

Thanks guys! I did some of the hexediting, deleted the preview/temp files, moved the .dvp file to a different directory, then started a new project and imported it and... everything worked.