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OK - here's a good one for a Sunday Morning.
Firstly let me tell you that when this is printed it's over
600pages.
I'd completed this project last night - about a months work.
When I tried to load the project file i received the "unable to
open project message" - project files created earlier that day were
all fine and could be opened (these were "backed-up" copies).
Now then I looked into the folder there were 2!! projects
present in the same folder, one about 2Mb in size, and the second
only 2kb. So you'd think that the former would be the correct one -
but this gave the aforementioned error message.
Now here's the odd thing. If I renamed the 2kb version, eg
instead of MYPROJECT it was MYPROJECTPENGUIN, and then ran that one
everything worked perfectly.
However if I swapped this idea - I got the same error.
OK - now I can't figure out why on earth this
happened...............HELP!!!
Al

Here's a quick update:
I've installed trial version of X5, and this seemed to sort
out the problem.
Managed to get an order approved for v6. So am currently
downloading it....
Al

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