IF you havent tried to open your project in a code-editor, yourself(?) That error could be a cluster-error on your harddrive!
Something has corrupted the file!
If it is af MMPZ file, it is lost.
If it is af MMP file, it is possible to recover at least something.
What is it?
Besides that, since you are new in Forum
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