[URGENT] Cannot Open AI file. Error ID=-50

[T***@adobeforums.com]

PROBLEM
We have a series of Illustrator CS2 files that save without any error messages.

However, when opening the files, Illustrator fails with a dialog stating "Could not open file. Error ID = -50"

After the error message, the .ai file displays, but with shapes missing.

Illustrator appears to be generating damaged PostScript.

EXAMPLE FILES
Can be downloaded from
<http://www.bespoke.org/adobe/AdobeSupport.zip>

SYSTEMS
This error has been reproduced on two WinXP systems with the 12.0.1 (Latest update) version of illustrator.

This error has been replicated on a WinXP system with a clean install.

Please respond ASAP to this, either in this form, or directly to:

***@siriusit.com
or
***@eea.europa.eu

Thanks in advance,
Tor Kristensen
Senior Interface Developer

[J***@adobeforums.com]

Tor,

First thing to try is to place each file in a new document, and to see whether you recover more of the artwork, hopefully enough to live with.

This is an old thread that repeats suggestions from an even older thread: Jacob Bugge, "saving - re-opening files errors & data loss" #1, 5 Apr 2006 7:20 am </cgi-bin/webx?14@@.3bbf40e1/0>

As Bert once said: Uh, oh, ID=-50 is bad.

Good luck, hopefully better than most.