Project will not open!!

[Channel Cat]

I saved the project yesterday and today when I try to open a box pops up and
says the file contains invalid data or to many rows.
It suggest to validate the data, but it will not open so I can do this. Any
suggestions?

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Channel Cat,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

It sounds like corruption to me. I suggest you use your backup project.
Otherwise, you could try opening a new project and using the Insert menu to
insert your project. If that works, you could try the suggestions in FAQ
Item: 43. Handling project file corruption and/or bloat.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address:http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials

 

[Channel Cat]

Thanks Mike, I have no back up of the project.
None of the suggestions worked. I get the sane error message when I try of
insert.
The last thing I did yesterday was pass word protect the project. When I
open it today it ask for a pass word even if you say "Read Only". I tried
saving it to another location with the same results. I'm open for ANT
suggestions.

 

[JulieS]

Hi Channel Cat,

Are you using Project 2007? It may be too late but if you are using Project
2007, please make sure you have SP-1 installed. There were some troubles
with password protected files in Project 2007.

Can you open the file if you supply the password?

I hope this helps.
Julie

 

[Channel Cat]

I have 2002.
The one thing I remember from yesterday is bringing in task from another
project and a box pops up that says 'Bob is not a valid...., do you want to
add?' I said yes. I later saved it as a different file with a password and
left work. Today I get the invalid data warning and it will not open. It
requires a pass word reguardless of Read Only. It will not open with a
paaword.

 

[JulieS]

Hi Channel Cat,

Thanks for the additional information. Well, I'm sorry to say it
sounds as though your file is a loss. Is the file a consolidated
master file? It sounds as though you have a resource pool file that
you added "Bob" to. Can you open that file?

Julie