# Oh god please help!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oh-god-please-help/65190
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 23, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oh-god-please-help/65190 "2004-09-23T20:39:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@joecohen](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/joecohen)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oh-god-please-help/65190/1 "2004-09-23T20:39:42Z")
I am currently climbing the bloody walls, after spending two weeks making a site in flash - I upgrade my flash to a legitamte version of MX and can no longer open my old file:
[http://www.dgcdistribution.com/plus13.fla](http://www.dgcdistribution.com/plus13.fla)
if anyone could open that and save it in like flash 5 or something I’d be forever in their debt.
please help!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oh-god-please-help/65190/2 "2004-09-23T21:07:55Z")
Your link doesn’t work !!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oh-god-please-help/65190/3 "2004-09-24T04:25:42Z")
joecohen : Your link doesn’t work. One friendly advice, you should have a back-up file for everything. Remember the golden rule 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 6:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oh-god-please-help/65190/4 "2004-09-24T06:33:30Z")
terribly sorry about that
[http://www.dgcdistribution.com/plus13/flash/plus13.fla](http://www.dgcdistribution.com/plus13/flash/plus13.fla)
I did back it up, none of the files i made in that version of mx will open :S
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oh-god-please-help/65190/5 "2004-09-24T07:22:44Z")
joecohen: I suspect this is an MX2004 file - I get an ‘Unexpected File Format’ when trying to open your file.
Someone here with MX2004 should be able to confirm 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 8:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oh-god-please-help/65190/6 "2004-09-24T08:21:49Z")
“Failed to open document” with Flash MX and “unexpected format file” with MX2004 :h: sorry man, your file must be corrupted
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oh-god-please-help/65190/7 "2004-09-24T08:47:19Z")
If it is corrupt, presumably you still have the .swf from the .fla? If you get hold of an swf decompiler at least somethings (particularly your AS) can be recovered into a new .fla.
Good luck
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oh-god-please-help/65190/8 "2004-09-24T13:41:14Z")
yeah I have a decomplier - I was hoping someone might be able to salvage all my hard work…
GOD I \*\*\*\*ING HATE MX!
cheers for the help anyway guys - much appriciated.