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Opening a corrupted Illustrator .ai file

We have an Illustrator CS2 file, that a co-worker has been working on for the last month, that is now telling us unknown error has occured.

We have tried opening it in Acrobat and saving like we read on the Behance Network, but couldn't get it to work. We can see the thumbnail but when we try opening it, it gets about half way through the Reading Illustrator File and then gives us the error message.

We would really like to get this file open and not loose a months worth of work. Please Help!!


Franklin Elliott


2 Answers

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Have you tried placing it into a new .ai file? Sometimes works.

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As you can look for the answer here: http://www.filerepairforum.com/forum/microsoft/microsoft-aa/exchange-server/100
-my-mailbox-files-or-folders-are-been-corrupted


By Mark Fields   

Acrobat cannot open Illustrator files, it can only open those files that were actually saved as PDF files by Illustrator. You may want to ask this question in the Illustrator forum: https://forums.adobe.com/community/illustrator

In general, it's always a good idea to keep backups so that the most you can use is e.g. a days worth of work. I understand that this advice does not help you with this specific problem, but going forward, you may be able to avoid this type of problems.

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Karl Heinz Kremer   

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