HELP --Restore files?
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How can one restore files? Does the SU team help with this? Need it fast as I must start to redraw it if necessary.
Big bummer. I open the file and the whole house is gone. All the versions I have in back up either lack the latest work or are unreadable, or the house is gone. I can get back to files at the point I should have the latest work but they won't open in SU. This was due tomorrow...
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Sorry, Peter. I'm back in use and when starting back up had issues with load fails and crashes. I deleted scads of plugins and got back in the saddle. Loaded any new ones lately?
How far back do you have to go to get a working model? That is weird that the files would have been saved in a corrupt form and it seems more likely that something else is amiss. Try a non-pro prog load; try a different load on a different computer? -
Peter, have you looked in the In Model Components library? Are your components there? Of course if you made groups they wouldn't be.
What about the ~skp file?
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I had a file once that for some reason would not open and it was straight after saving, I closed and re-opened to get an error message that said something like it was not a recognised file, what I did is open it in a 3rd party app and save it again as a .3ds then import into SU and do a cleanup. I hope this helps as losing a lot of work is frustrating.
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I had another thought that might work. Although it's been years since I ran into this, I have had some corrupted files that, after I e-mailed them to myself, I was able to open successfully. No one has ever been able to tell me why it worked but it did. As they say about chicken soup, it couldn't hurt.
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This was an odd one. Although SU IS very unstable for me in general, I am usually backing up and autosave etc. I don't lose much (always save before some operations). In this case something happened and I saved the file (maybe) and also it was saved to my back up disk. However I have editions of back up for every day.
The files open in a text editor instead of SU. It seems like the files went bad but then the main copy was still OK but no house.
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even if you have autosave turned off it may be worth doing a spotlight search for Autosave_Autosave it strange what turns up...
john
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@dave r said:
Peter, have you looked in the In Model Components library? Are your components there? Of course if you made groups they wouldn't be.
What about the ~skp file?
DOH!
YES the components are there! 
WHY did I not save the whole house as a component- it's a group? But much of the windows and things I was doing yesterday are there and I can insert into the house version that I do have. That was most of the work I was missing!
The ultimate reason to make components I guess.
Yeah I have "~" and autosave files (No SKB though I have that checked) from different days and hours, so recovering has been confusing. Same problems.
I'll try the email thing. I don't know of any third party SW I have that open SU.
Thanks guys!
The components pretty much bring me back I think. Now I can go home for Valentines Day dinner and not be a grump.
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Phew! I'm glad you made at least some components and that it helped. It's one of my supporting arguments for only making components.
Fingers crossed about the e-mailing thing.
And enjoy your Valentine's evening.
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Thanks,Dave. Happy Valentines to all.
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