Fender2112 Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 When I finished working on a drawing today, I quit Vectorworks. During this process the application crashed. As a result, the file was damaged and I don't know how to recover it. When I try to open the file I get this message: This file is damaged. It will open with as much data as possible. I click OK and this error message appears: -39 End of file reached during read. Attempt to read file -FSREAD I am using Vectorworks 9.5.3 on Mac OS 10.4.6 Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Quote Link to comment
cbaarch Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Did you have your backup file turned on with create in a folder if you did then there is a subfolder that contains the file open that file and make sure you save to the folder you are working with because it will create another backup folder etc... do not use open recent file when you are doing this kind of clean up as the file names are the same Quote Link to comment
Fender2112 Posted April 23, 2006 Author Share Posted April 23, 2006 I am going to assume no because I am not aware of a backup feature. I do use auto save. But I don't think that's what you mean. I do have an older version on my laptop. I suppose I'll use it and redo the parts that are lost. Quote Link to comment
Travis Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 Fender, You might benefit from this thread: http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubbthrea...=true#Post33864 Good luck Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 there is a technique that may work to recover adamaged file. you can use the WorkGroup Reference command to link your old file to a new one. if this works then you can recover the damaged file. If you go to: http://www.archoncad.co.nz/resources/resources.php then you should find a tip called How to Save a Corrupt File download this file and try it out Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Just 'cus VW crashed during save doesn't necessary mean the existing file was damaged. Just that any new changes were not saved as overwrite of memory data ... this is entirely an OS issue and the OS read/write is not dependent on whether or not the app is running... for good reason. VW just instructs the OS when to begin the save procedures then waits for it to happen before beginning anything else. The OS signals when it's safe to resume. Restart and look for the file & the backup. Then launch VW and open from the File menu not from Recent Items. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 FYI - We do not support VW 9.5.3 and Tiger. Please upgrade to Vw 12 for full compatibility. Quote Link to comment
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