"your project file is not readable"HELP

"your project file is not readable" is the message I am getting in imovie4.0.1 ... I have just spent 10 hours editing this thing tonight... and numerous hours the last week. I decided to take a break half hour ago and give me and the mac a breather... so I turn the computer back on and go to open my project and get that message. What more can I say... I save alot while I am editing... every 20 min at the most. I am gonna loose it if I lose it... I have over 580 clips in this thing... the tunes were falling into place real nice toooo,,, what can i do???
This is a skateboard video ,,, thats why so many clips... other projects still open...ah man... I bought this computer just for this project... I can not afford for this to happen to me... I am shaking .,.. my nerves... help please.

After losing a whole project in an earlier version of iMovie (when there was no .mov file in the project folder), I started doing several things to prevent another nightmare. ;o)
First, I never empty the trash. I save the project frequently--especially after an edit that was difficult. I quit iMovie and duplicate the project file AND the .mov file several times per iMovie. (File>Duplicate) I type a time code after the name of the duplicates, so it's easy to find the latest one. And periodically I reboot...this may be like knocking on wood.
IF you have these backups AND you get a corrupted project file, you can open a new iMovie project, import the clips, and replace the NEW project file and .mov with the backups. The backups must have the exact name as the new files being replaced.
I've only had to use this one time, but it worked great. I lost some editing, but it was not a big deal compared to losing a whole project.
I THINK this would work even if you lost all your clips, provided you imported the original footage from the same starting points and in the same order as in the original project. If wouldn't be easy with 160 clips, but most of my iMovies are of events captured on one or two miniDV tapes and possibly a couple of Keynote presentations, which I prefer for some of the intros and titling.
Karl, if you come up with a program to repair a corrupted file, you will be a Superhero!
iMama

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Your project file is not readable!!!

Okay. I'm about ready to have a nervous breakdown. I'm new to imovie, so I'm hoping there's someone who can help . . .
Basically, after working hours and hours on a project, (w/ my editing getting more and more complicated) out of nowhere it gives me a 'your project file is not readable.' I diligently save every couple of minutes, empty the trash, etc., but it still happens.
I thought it was my little ibook at home being the culprit, but after bringing it into work on a G5, dual processor it happened again!
Any help would be so appreciated. Thank you.

Welcome to the iMovie Discussion.
That's a known problem. It can happen after emptying the iMovie trash in versions 2 through 4. There are other contributing factors too. It doesn't happen often, but it happens.
Go to the following forum page, then use your Web browser to find this text: "I'm receiving many requests". My message starting with that text describes how to send me information needed to (hopefully) rescue the project.
Here's where to start:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=194634&start=100&tstart=0
Karl

Help. I can't open any of my project files,"Project file version not recognized". Whats going on?

After uninstalling and reinstalling Prelude CC none of my project files will open.
I get the notice "This version of the project file is not recognized!"
I have no idea how to troubleshoot this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

So after 3 hours of painful chat, Adobe Finally gave me the solution. They wouldn't answer my question without trying a bunch of things that I had said I already did, so hopefully this helps some people.
Somehow, updating was disabled, or suppressed, my the administrator (that's me). Adobe kind of forgot to give the administrator a way to then reenable that for users. You'd think that would be something the administrator would control from the admin console online, but no. You set it up once on install, then everyone is just stuck with whatever version they installed at the time. But good news! There's a file that suppresses that. You Might be able to simply delete it. I'm not sure.
But if you need to fix it, here it is. All 2 minutes that it will take you. Do NOT contact Adobe. Their help system is incredibly inefficient (but then again, aren't most?):
go here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\AAMUpdaterInventory\1.0
see an adobeUpdateradminprefs.dat file? Open that in notepad (or notepad++ or equivelant if you like that better)
Change the 1 to a zero and save.
That's all. That Should have been a known item, and would take all of 10 seconds to check, but I had to uninstall and reinstall several things before we went to a folder. Because uninstalling reinstalling is easier? ha
Now in response to Ramesh:
1. the issue is moot because previous versions of prelude can not open future versions. That's all over the web. So just make sure you have the current version.
2. we are now both at the current version.
3. offline media? we hadn't figured that out. If she closes the file and opens it again it seems to go away. So that's an unknown. And it's working now, so I don't really care.

The project file could not be loaded

a new windows 8.1, VS2013 install ... I use skydrive to sync all my source files to a folder named c:\skydrive. When I try to open a .SIN file from the c:\skydrive folder I get an error in visual studio:
C:\Skydrive\c#\AutoCoder\AutoCoder.csproj : error : The project file could not be loaded. The file cannot be accessed by the system.
C:\Skydrive\c#\AutoCoder\AutoCoder.csproj
When I right click the .csproj file in windows explorer I do not see a security tab. Not sure if my user is authorized to the file or not.
How to open a project in VS2013 from my skydrive folder?
thanks,

Hi Steve,
Generally we could open the project from the skydrive folder, I often use it. As you said that it doesn’t work in your VS, I doubt that it would be related to this project.
Please delete the .suo file in your project folder, and then reopen the project file again (.csproje) again.
If possible, you could run your VS as the admin, and then open this project.
If still no help, maybe you could create a new project for it.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11171322/how-can-i-recover-a-corrupt-csproj-file-in-visual-studio-2010
Or you would contact the developer who created this project.
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CS4 unable to place image ERROR: The file is not readable

Hi All,
I have been experiencing big issues with Illustrator CS4 and placing images into a document.
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Many Thanks!!

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LionkillerArt
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