Hello Arc users
I'm dealing with a very strange and frustrating issue where I simply cannot open my project file, I was able to access/open the file a few days ago and all of a sudden when I try to open it now it loads eternally. If it helps narrow the issue, when looking for similar issues I noticed that no matter how long I let the file run/load it does not display a 'Failed to Open Project' type of error, this is after allowing it to load for over an hour.
Another thing is that before re-installing ArcGIS Pro to see if that would resolve the issue, I made a rough copy of the project file onto my USB, and after reinstalling the program I still was getting the eternal loading screen from the main file but interestingly I was able to open the copy of the file that was transferred to the USB drive, but I cannot work with this file since it is missing all the datasets and shapefiles that are used in the project, and for some reason it will not allow me to bring in/locate some excel files.