Canon .MXF Files no Longer Opens in AE

This is for .MXF files shot on a Canon XF300.  Things were working fine, but suddenly I am unable to open those mxf files in AE CS6.  Even projects previously created with AE CS6 now won't open, and give me the 'file damaged or unsupported' error message in AE. The file locations are identical.   I've found workarounds, but they fall a very long way short of the convenience of using Dynamic Link from the Premiere Pro CS6 timeline.  There are lots of hits if you Google, but most go back a version or two, or suggest converting the MXF clips to an AE friendly format.  Like I say... doable, but it used to work fine, and I'd love to fix it so I can get back to using AE direct from Premiere Pro.  Any help would be much appreciated.   [EDIT]  Other file types are working fine.

Hi Klaus, and thanks for responding.   When I first got the error, I went back to older comps made with MXF files from the same camera, and now they are problematic as well, but not in the same way.  Any new MXF file I try to use in AE, whether from a PP timeline, or open directly from the AE projects panel, gives me the 'file damaged or unsupported' error message.  One of the older projects created with MXF files does in fact open, but is badly broken up when scrubbing the AE timeline.  That seems to be similar to problems I've found with Google.  It used to work fine, and now it doesn't. AE is 11.0.2.12  which I suspect is a new version than when I made the last project.  System is Win7  3039K @ 4.2Ghz, 32Gb RAM, and GTX570.  Project drive is raid0 with two 2nd gen Velociraptors.  One other raid0 drive.  Lots of drives totalling 14Tb.    It won't be the end of the world if I have to transcode a few clips, but it used to work, so I'm thinking it should be fixable.

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