How to repair projects that get a "TickTime.cpp-290" error after opening a specific project.

Question

This is a guide to repair projects that get a "TickTime.cpp-290" error after opening a specific project.
Prerequisites:
Project repair tool (download link below)
WinRAR or any file archiver
Damaged project file
As an example, let's say the name of my damaged project is 'test.prproj'
Steps:
1. Download the project repair tool here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3fyja0ws7l5gkbt/pp-repair-0.1.35.zip?dl=0
2. Rename your project file extension from 'test.prproj' to 'test.zip' (a warning appears saying the file might become unusable. Do not be concerned about the warning. Click OK and move to the next step.)
3. Extract the contents of 'test.zip' to a location on your computer. (Right click on the file and select ‘Extract files’ > Choose a location > Click OK).
4. Go to the extracted location. Note the file 'test' has no extension.
5. Rename the file, 'test.prproj'.
6. Launch the project repair tool, and then select the file 'test.prproj' (the one that we renamed in the last step).
7. Deselect all the check-boxes in the project repair tool.
8. Click the Repair button.
9. After a few seconds you see a message saying 'Success'.
10. Open the repaired file in Premiere Pro and then reset the workspace. Choose Window > Workspace > Reset Current Workspace.
11. Click the Save button to reduce the project size.
12. Your project is now repaired.
NOTE: If a file containing letters such as ã, å, ê, í, ú don’t repair, rename the file to something that doesn't contain these letters.

Answer 1

Hi Rameez,
first of all thanks a bunch for the tool - it saved our neck this morning on a tight deadline.
One minor note: I did get a message that the (already uncompressed + renamed) file is not uncompressed until I ran the tool as Administrator so you might want to add that to the FAQ entry...
Other than that I'm very much interested in what triggers this bug so we can potentially prevent it.
Background:
Specs: Windows 8.1, German locale (ie comma is decimal symbol), Premiere Pro CC 2014.2 installed in English
My colleague who ran into the TickTime.cpp-290 error remembers having created a new workspace while working on the project. That seems to have triggered the issue as we haven't had any trouble on other projects yet. It also got saved into the project file:
<MZ.Project.WorkspaceName>Bearbeitung</MZ.Project.WorkspaceName>
Any autosaves after he added the workspace were corrupted as well while the ones dating back to earlier still open fine.
I'd like to mention that Premiere did import previous (German language) workspaces - dating back until CS5. Not sure if that comes into play.
On the other hand, the debug log looks like there only is an issue with the decimal symbol:
10:08:06: Input: C:/temp/trouble/uncompressed/final.prproj
10:08:06: Path: C:/temp/trouble/uncompressed Basename: final Extension:prproj
10:08:06: 19852-> from: <PlaybackSpeed>0,069148936170212769</PlaybackSpeed>
10:08:06: 19852-> to:   <PlaybackSpeed>0.069148936170212769</PlaybackSpeed>
10:08:06: 23970-> from: <PlaybackSpeed>0,0062741915889604422</PlaybackSpeed>
10:08:06: 23970-> to:   <PlaybackSpeed>0.0062741915889604422</PlaybackSpeed>
I really need to make sure that this is no general problem with German locales as we have multiple users on this kind of config and can't afford projects breaking.
Or do we "just" need to watch out to get rid of the old workspaces? I'm a little puzzled to be honest.
Maybe it helps to mention that we are on CC Enterprise
Best regards,
Mike