Adobe Premiere CC 7.0 The project appears to be damaged it cannot be opened.

Hi, please help me,
I accidentally deleted the project files (also auto saved files) but I recovered them (by recuva tool),when I want open the file the Premiere say me error "the project appears to be damaged it cannot be opened" .. the import into new project is not working, can you help me please? some recovery tool? Or can I send the file to you?I use version Premiere pro CC (7.0). thank you a lot!

Gary,
Three things that I would try:
Look in your AutoSave folder for that Project, and find the latest - try to Open that. Note: if the defaults were not changed, you will have 5 AutoSaves in that folder. As AutoSave files are FIFO (First In - First Out), I would look at that folder with Detail View, and check the Date/Time of each file - #3 might be newer, than #5. Try each AutoSave file in reverse order - newest first, and work backward, until one does Open correctly.
As a PREL file is XML, one can use a free utility, XMLWrench, to test the PREL's header. When going to Open the PREL into XMLWrench, you will likely need to change the file extension from "XML" to "All Files," to see the PREL's.
If your issue is due to a bad/corrupt Asset, one other test would be to use Windows Explorer, to "hide" the Assets. I would Move all to separate and different, newly created sub-folders, say "Video," "Still," "Audio," etc.. Then, try to Open that original PREL again. If it gets past the initial Open stage, you should get a dialog asking "Where is file ____ ?" Then, navigate to the sub-folder, where you Moved that Asset type, say "Video" sub-folder with your Video Assets. Locate that first "missing file," and PrE will attempt to relink to it, and then automatically attempt to relink to all other Video Assets in that sub-folder. This process will repeat for each Asset type, in those sub-folders. If the Open process hangs, or gives an error message, then you know which Asset type has a problem. One can then manually separate those Assets, as before, but into individual sub-folders, so that you can isolate on the one bad file - hopefully. Depending on the number of Assets in that Asset type, it can be a bit tedious, but if you can isolate a problem Asset, you can then investigate how to handle that.
Good luck, and thanks for letting us know about the "offline editing." I had the same question as Steve G did.
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