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Movie Maker can’t open my project file.

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Archived post from December 12, 2018. Product: Windows Essentials – no longer developed by its maker. Details may be out of date.

Question asked on Dec 12, 2018

So, I'm using Windows Movie Maker 2012 on my Windows 10 laptop. Yesterday, I decided to move my project file to a slightly different location on my laptop. Not too long after that, I couldn't open the project at all and I kept getting this message:

"Sorry, Movie Maker can't open this project file. The file might not be compatible with Movie Maker or be corrupted. Please select a different project file."

I've tried everything through changing certain text in NotePad, making a copy of the file, restarting my laptop.........Nothing has worked. Is there any hope for fixing this or will I have to start all over?

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