Flash Pro CC saved fla project - "Could not load scene into memory. Your document may be damaged."

Hi all, I've been working on a project in Flash Professional CC in windows 7 that was started in a previous version of Flash Pro and occasionally after I've saved the project and tried to open it the next day I get the "Could not load scene into memory. Your document may be damaged." message and only a blank Scene 2 in the project. I've previously been reverting back to the old saved project file and starting over. Its wasted a lot of time so far.
I can still open the same exact project in CS6 on another older computer but not in CC. I can also save the fla in CS6, transfer it to the other computer and then it will work again (for now). This isn't going to be an option in the future as CS6 was a trial version that is on its last use today.
I've tried to create a new flash pro cc project and just copied and pasted the library and scene layout from the old project into the new project. This worked for a couple of saves/ opens but the error has happened again. I'm scared that now that I've reached the point in the project were my work in the animation/ visual side will start to be more intensive that I will continuosly have to worry about losing all of my work. I'm using a document class so the AS3 code hasn't been an issue thankfully. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks for the reply Amy, that is essentially what I am doing already only I'm not using version control software I'm just managing it on my own since its a solo project, though I have been considerring using git anyway. It still doesn't explain why I can open and save the supposedly damaged project (according to CC) in CS6 and only then will it work again in CC. Also I'm not gettting a chance to save as a new version over and over for long. Its only a couple of days max, usually just over one day, and I've primarily been working on the code in Flash Builder with little functional change in the actual fla project. Its primarily changing movieclips instance names, which in this project is tedious and time consuming. Having to revert back to the older working version is exaclty what I'm trying to avoid. I shouldn't have to commit the project to a repository every little change that I make to the fla file.

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