Premiere Elements 12 (Mac) "This project appears to be damaged. It cannot be opened."

I have read the forum posts regarding this issue and was unable to fix it. I was working on a project this morning on my iMac (2009) with latest Maverick OS, and all up-to-date on the software, and things were working fine, as they had been all week. Nothing new. I save often and have autosave on as well. The program crashed, and when I tried to open the file again, I received the damaged file message. I am able to open previous projects, and make new ones. Only this one seems corrupt. I tried opening the older versions that were autosaved (project-1, project-2, etc) none of the 5 will open. I tried moving the supporting media files to a new folder, and the project still won't open. I didn't try uninstalling and reinstalling the software, since it didn't appear from reading previous posts that that has solved the problem. I wasn't trying to do anything fancy, but in the last version I had added and was editing one of the rolling title frames, with the provided font. I know that in the past I have had the program crash when I used large media files in the project, but that wasn't the case here. Is there another way that I might be able to recover this project?
Thx

Rochelle
Although troublesome, the good news part is that you can open previous project and create new ones.
Was there anything different that went into this problem project that you might point to as a possible cause of the problem?
Source media, effects applied, size of project, etc. You seem to be working with AutoSave On in preferences. How do you have that set for numbers of snapshots and timing between snapshots?
Starting over is good choice in this one instance, but, if the problem happens again, then we need to dig deeper for possible cause.
We will be watching for your progress when you get a chance. Your follow up with details was much appreciated.
Thank you.
ATR

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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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