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    Oliver Cassels commented  · 

    Hi,

    Illustrator was working fine, suddenly crashed and now says: 'Could not read the file because the plugin did not understand this file' everytime I try to launch.

    I had alot of vectors on the document and several artboards and copies of work, some complex shapes and masks ect. Some of the some of the shapes which were masks in groups were clipping images, some of these clipping mask groups had been copied across documents and had missing links, which may be part of the problem.

    Upon launching Illustrator a dialogue box appears and asks to 'replace' or 'ignore' the missing links, when either the actions of 'replace' or 'ignore' is taken the same error/bug keeps appearing: 'Could not read file because the plugin did not understand this file'.

    I've updated and restarted my computer (MacBookPro Late 2016) and not sure what else to do.

    The file size is 73.3mb so I don't think I'll be able to upload it but if there is any way i can send it to you and so things can be investigated.

    Really need help with this.

    Cheers

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