Help with restored files...

My computer hard drive recently crashed.  We were able to find the files and restore them onto another computer- however all of the files are a jumbled mess.  The files are large which makes me believe the data is there... but they will not open.  I get an error message that they are damaged.  I've tried recreating one of the projects- but the avi files are now all avi.mcdb files.  I cannot rename them as avi- I get a damaged error message.  I can't even open any of the project files in the Auto-Save folder. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm at a loss...

Here is an example of what one of my PRPROJ's look like (just the header and a bit more) in WordPad:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<PremiereData Version="3">
     <Project ObjectRef="1"/>
     <Project ObjectID="1" ClassID="62ad66dd-0dcd-42da-a660-6d8fbde94876" Version="18">
          <Node Version="1">
               <Children Version="1">
                    <Child Index="0" ObjectRef="2"/>
               </Children>
               <Properties Version="1">
                    <Columns.List Version="1">
                         <Columns Version="1">
                              <Column Index="0" ObjectRef="1"/>
                              <Column Index="1" ObjectRef="2"/>
                              <Column Index="2" ObjectRef="3"/>
                              <Column Index="3" ObjectRef="4"/>
                              <Column Index="4" ObjectRef="5"/>
                              <Column Index="5" ObjectRef="6"/>
                              <Column Index="6" ObjectRef="7"/>
                              <Column Index="7" ObjectRef="8"/>
                              <Column Index="8" ObjectRef="9"/>
                              <Column Index="9" ObjectRef="10"/>
                              <Column Index="10" ObjectRef="11"/>
                              <Column Index="11" ObjectRef="12"/>
                              <Column Index="12" ObjectRef="13"/>
                              <Column Index="13" ObjectRef="14"/>
                              <Column Index="14" ObjectRef="15"/>
                              <Column Index="15" ObjectRef="16"/>
                              <Column Index="16" ObjectRef="17"/>
                              <Column Index="17" ObjectRef="18"/>
                              <Column Index="18" ObjectRef="19"/>
                              <Column Index="19" ObjectRef="20"/>
                              <Column Index="20" ObjectRef="21"/>
                              <Column Index="21" ObjectRef="22"/>
                              <Column Index="22" ObjectRef="23"/>
                              <Column Index="23" ObjectRef="24"/>
                              <Column Index="24" ObjectRef="25"/>
                              <Column Index="25" ObjectRef="26"/>
                              <Column Index="26" ObjectRef="27"/>
                              <Column Index="27" ObjectRef="28"/>
                         </Columns>
                         <LabelColumn ObjectID="1" ClassID="0b8cc011-65dd-4b47-aad9-751ca2891f4a" Version="1">
                              <Column.ID>Column.PropertyText.Label</Column.ID>
                              <Column.Width>100</Column.Width>
                              <Column.Name>Label</Column.Name>
                              <Column.Type>1</Column.Type>
                              <Column.BitmapID>-1</Column.BitmapID>
                              <Column.IsHidden>false</Column.IsHidden>
Note: in WordPad, there is major indention, that does not translate here, but you get the idea. If you are not seeing similar, then the files are "hosed."
That often happens with recovery operations.
Sorry, and I have been there before. Luckily, I use only Copies of my Assets, but have lost entire Projects due to HDD failure, and had to start from almost scratch. For big Projects, I'll do a Save_As_a_Copy to another HDD, just in case.
Good luck,
Hunt

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