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Movie Maker will not open a project, saying file may not be compatible or corrupted

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Archived post from December 10, 2018. Product: Windows Essentials – no longer developed by its maker. Details may be out of date.

Question asked on Dec 10, 2018
Can anyone help to fix or restore a Movie Maker project that I have spent many hours making, but now will not open and I get the message that the project file may not be compatible or corrupted. Problems started when I tried to split a video file, then a number of the images when blank or were just white space, and would not react, so I closed Movie Maker then tried to reopen the file, which was working well up to that point, but it would not open. 

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