So I am currently making a project on turbowarp and it has worked an absolute treat until just now. Turbowarp is refusing to load a file that is saved on my USB stick and keeps showing up this message:

I have tried creating a copy, but the message has also popped up. I have looked at some similar problems online and I have figured that it might be because there are some costumes and backgrounds in it that are very detailed and large. It also might be because of my bad internet connection.
I might try restarting my pc and inserting and re-inserting the USB to see if the problem still persists.

anyway, what should I do? Is there any way to compress or reduce the file's size it or is it lost for good???

Try renaming the sb3 to zip, copying the contents to another zip file then opening that with TurboWarp. If you are lucky the zip extractor will allow to copy everything except the corrupted costume.
I didn't try it so it might not work

nembence wrote:

Try renaming the sb3 to zip, copying the contents to another zip file then opening that with TurboWarp. If you are lucky the zip extractor will allow to copy everything except the corrupted costume.
I didn't try it so it might not work

it has surprisingly worked. thank you so much, i was doing all sorts of stuff such as turning the sb3 file into a zip file and opening the project.json file by itself and i never thought of just dumping everything into another folder.

Same for me it says could not load project

Now it works and loads
1 copy the project file
2 import the copy into turbowarp
I hope this works because I tried it and it works