How to Recover a Corrupt Premiere Pro Project When all else fails

IMPORTANT INFO BELOW: While working on a very complex project PP crashed and permanently screwed up the ability to keep the files linked, to use the dynamic link server with After effects, or export any video.

The solution I found is to create a new PP project and open the corrupt project alongside it. Then copy paste all the clips from the corrupt project timeline into the new project timeline. The linked .AEP may still fail to load and crash the project if you try to link them. I found that after this happened if I opened AE and then reopened the new PP project, the AEP files correctly synched via the dynamic link server without me manually importing them again.

PLEASE NOTE: To relink an AEP sequence:
1. open the AEP project that contains the dynamically linked sequence
2. click and drag the sequence into the new PP project bin.
3. hold alt while dragging and dropping the AEP sequence into the pending sequence in the new PP timeline. That's the only way it works for me.

It appears that if you close Premiere at this point the AEP will become unlinked again. I realize this isn't a perfect solution.

The other downside here is that you have to re link all the AEP files manually which takes more time if you have a lot of them.

At least you can export your video before closing premiere. Repairing the dynamic link server completely may mean reinstalling PP and AE.

After that I turned off hardware rending because I still get an error 3 when using the hardware (GPU) to render. CPU is slower but at least it works.