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I started having the problem after opening a project from a colleague who has been experiencing the same thing.
I am working on a mid 2014 Macbook Pro with 16GB of RAM with Os X Yosemite 10.10.2. My AE is on CC 2014 and is fully up to date.
Any ideas?

I have the same problem with exact the same setup. Also in Photoshop i can`t open files.
I also reinstalled everything and i get the same problems again.

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