Saving Project plans error

Hi I wonder if anyone can help with a problem we are having with saving plans in MS Project 2013. This is only happening on one project engineers system since he got MS Project 2013 installed.
It seems when he makes significant changes, like adding new tasks or cutting and pasting tasks in the plan appears to save normally then when it is reopened on his or another laptop/desktop the new tasks which have been inserted
have duplicated by 10 or more on each task. Then when he tries to change it all back it wont save its almost like the system thinks these changes are done on an older version.
The error message is 'The file cannot be opened. - check the file name and path are correct - check the file format is recognised by Project. Project files saved in an earlier than MS Project 2000 cannot be opened.'
But when the PE creates a new plan and adds in all the tasks the system recognises that this is version 2013 and there are no problems unless he tries to add new tasks to his plan after the initial plan has been created. Its very
strange. We have had MS Project 2013 re installed and its made no difference. This never happened until he moved from 2010 to 2013.
I hope i have explained myself well and hopefully someone has come across this before.
Thanks

Hi Kath,
Is it MS Project standalone or connected to Project Server?
I've seen this happened due to copy-paste which can corrupt the project plan. Does it also happen on a blank new file with no copy-paste?
You could try to repair the project file in case it is corrupted, with the
XML export or/and
save for sharing method.
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