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suztv
05-10-2006, 05:52 PM
Last week I was finishing up a file in AfterEffects when the machine began to hang. I quit out of AfterEffect 6.5 and restarted the Machine (Macintosh Quad processor with 4G of ram). I restarted AfterEffects and opened the file I was working on. It would open the project only so far and said it couldn't read PNGs error code (-43). It also had a problem reading Illustrator files (cannot open a file that is already open). So I re-installed the program which seemed to fix the glitch temporarily - until I restarted the machine on Monday. The same exact thing happened.

I thought that maybe the file was corrupt - I created a new file and tried to import PNGs and Illustrator files into it - same error. As a last ditch effort I downloaded the AE7 trial and I copied the file in question onto a PC running AE 6.5. The file worked on the PC without any problems (in 6.5). It also worked fine in AE 7 on the Mac.

This entire debacle cost me about 8 hours of production time.

Just curious - has anyone had any similar issues? For all of you conspiracy theory buffs - is it possible that Adobe put a kill switch in AE 6.5 on the last update?
Mylenium
05-11-2006, 05:47 AM
For all of you conspiracy theory buffs - is it possible that Adobe put a kill switch in AE 6.5 on the last update?

Nope. If they would do that, they wouldn't offer upgrades from AE 4.1 to AE 7 - they can't assume someone still would use 4.1 and yet force 6.5 users to upgrade.

Have you checked your disks? Perhaps even on a re-install your AE ends up in a damaged sector and thus the I/O plugins end up non-working. Also check Quicktime. I know that on a Mac AE uses even more of its functions (relevant for PNG).

Mylenium
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