Crystal Report corruption

Question

Unsure if anyone on here could lend a hand, but I thought I'd give it a shot. Google wasn't too useful.

I have a report that I was working on all yesterday in Crystal Reports XI. I thought it was all good and working, so I closed the file (big mistake). Now, I try and open it again, and it's not letting me.

I get the following errors:

"An Ole object in this report could not not be loaded. It has been replaced with a blank object"

So then crystal tries to load my report with it's changes (I think), and then I get:

" This document could not be opened. It does not appear to be a Crystal Report document. This document has the expected file extension (.RPT), but it seems to be corrupted. If this report used to work, try opening it with a different version of Crystal reports and if that still does not work, please contact your administrator".

I don't have another version of Crystal to check it with, and I'm pretty much the local admin for crystal, and I have no idea what to do.

Crystal wasn't letting me save over previous versions of this report yesterday, and now none of the 6+ versions I have are loading.

Can anyone suggest anything to help?

Answer 1

You can try opening it in Visual Studio, which may or may not have the same version of Crystal. But it's a binary file, and if that gets munched, I'm not sure you have much recourse.

Answer 2

I got around this error by recreating the entire report.

I have no idea what the issue was, but after I spend 2 hours recreating it, it now works as intended.

I'm guessing that if anyone else receives the terminal Corruption error, they should just throw it away and start again.