PE2 "project appears to be damaged"

Over the course of the past month, I occasionally get a message "The project appears to be damaged, it cannot be opened" about halfway through the project loading. I then go back to the prior day's version (I save each successive day's version as a different file) and redo a day's worth of edits and then move on. Is there any way to open and use a project which gives this error message, or have I lost that version?

If you are reading this page, there is a good chance you are freaking out. "Holy Crap--do I have to do all that work over again???"
I am just writing to say that after much freaking out on my part, the XML Wrench also worked for me. I was reluctant to try it--open the XML code and make changes to it? That sounds way above my computing capabilities. However, I decided to post here to tell other frightened people that using XML Wrench is very simple, in fact.
Here are the steps I followed (which I copied from another forum):
1. Do a google search for XML Wrench and download it. As I write this it's located at XMLWrench.com. It's free, and not a big, complex program.
2. Use it to open the corrupt file. When you go to "Open" in XMLWrench, it will start by looking for .xml files. Since your .prproj doesn't have the .xml (although it IS an xml file) you'll have to change the "open file type" drop down to "any file" in order for the .prproj to show up.
3. Simply go to the "Tools" menu in XML Wrench and perform a 'Check is well formed'.
4. It go down the code and stop once it finds the first error. Once you have fixed that error, you run "Check is Well Formed" again to find the next one (if any.)  Mine only had two errors (can you beleive the stress over two little errors!) but others said they were fixing errors for twenty minutes, so I don't know.
5. How to fix an error: Usually you will find "garbage data" in between some XML fields like this <NAME>&$d.~</NAME>. Just delete the weird stuff (&$d.~) in the middle, but leave the open and close tags there (<NAME></NAME>)
6. Once you've fixed every error, XMLWrench will tell you it couldn't find any more. ("Ok. File is well-formed.")
7. It is VERY important that once you fix all of the errors, perform a SAVE AS and name it "(project name).prproj". IF you do not name the extension '.prproj' then Premiere wont recognize it.
THANK YOU to the geniuses who figured this out!
And, if XML Wrench does not work for you, and your project is still damaged, I am terribly sorry and I sincerely hope you can find a solution to your problem! Best of luck!

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    It still opens fine on the machine running the creative cloud licence with no errors so I dont believe the file is actually damaged but we can't access it from the other machines.
    Any help would be much apporeciated.
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    Welcome to forums .
    The error massaage indicates that project file is either damage or corrupt .
    If the project file is fine then same project file can work both on single App subscription and Volume license subscription .
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  • Adobe Premiere CC 7.0 The project appears to be damaged it cannot be opened.

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