Disaster-DVDSP4 won't open project anymore, looks for weird file

I built a DVDSP4 project using as my intro movie a project I created in Motion. All was going well until tonight when I made some changes to the intro movie by using the "open in editor" command from within DVDSP. The modifications were saved. When I went back to DVDSP, the intro movie played, but without the audio. I tried resaving the audio, which had been edited and saved in Soundtrack, instead as aiff, which seems to be more compatible with DVDSP. When I tried to reimport the Motion movie (which I hoped would contain audio that DVDSP would recognize, I started having problems. Now I can't launch my DVDSP project. I get messages about 3/4 of the way to opening it, which say that movie data in a file called E95A-4182-8#39426B.aif can't be found. It keeps trying to find that file and I finally have to force quit DVDSP. I also get the same message when I try to open the Motion project that made the intro movie. The failure of the DVDSP project to open even happens to a backup copy of the project I made last night, 24 hours before I had this problem. DVDSP will launch, but with a new project. I simply can't get the project I worked on for 3 days to open. Does anyone have an idea how I can get at least part of my project back?

I found your post looking for the same information, and in my case, it was a huge project.
First, I usually save the project with a different name (like XXX_COPY) just in case because I do not know if DVDSP4 saves a backup like FCP and FCE. In this case, I invested a lot of hours and the saved copy was too old (24 hours!) to try to continue from it.
I noticed that the program crashed in the final stage of loading while working with the assets... Good news! I solved it and recover the project.
I rename the directory for the source clips so the program would advice that the links were lost. DVDSP opened with the missing links and saved it just in case with another name... just in case.
After opening the project with missing links (becasue I renamed the directory), I changed it back to its original name and the auto reconnect discovered it and after clicking 'OK' a thousand times (one for each asset), it all got connected. I saved it with another name (I was then paranoic) and opened it and it now appears to be OK... Saved like 12 hours of work.
In my case, since I was not using anything but DVDSP, it was DVDSP itself the one who corrupted the project file.
Hope you can solve it,
Israel
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