How to fix "Invalid Archive Signature" error?

Q&A
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Hi, I’m running into an issue where gplates isn’t loading my project that I thought I properly saved & quit last night due to an error window that reads:

Error: Gplates was unable to load the project file ‘Project 1.gproj’:
InvalidArchiveSignature: Scribe archive stream has an invalid signature. Call stack trace:
(E:\Users\John\Development\Usyd\gplates\src\2.3\src\scribe\ScribeBinaryArchiveReader.cc,71)

What is this error, what caused it, and how do I fix it and ensure it never happens again? I can’t seem to find any resources on this online. Really demoralizing to have this happen to my first-ever project just as I was starting to get the hang of things.

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Hi Looxcas,

Unfortunately it’s quite likely that your project file got corrupted somehow. The archive signature is the first thing in the file that GPlates uses to ensure it’s actually a GPlates project file, and it’s not even getting past this.

Perhaps a corruption happened after saving and before loading. In any case, all you can really do now is create/save a new project file.