Unexpected end of file encountered during file read operation

[Klaus Koch]

Hi,

We have encountered a serious problem with one of our single vw project file under VW 2019 SP3. The file got corrupted with the following message: "Unexpected end of file encountered during file read operation. (Failure on attempt to read file)". We then tried to open 10no. of backups which were created by autosaving on that day. Surprisingly none of them could be opened as we got the same error message.
That's a catastrophe!! Is there a way to open the file?
A quick help would be very helpful.

[Guest Alex Sagatov]

@Klaus Koch

 

In terms of not losing your file/information, the working files that you are using to actual do your work should still be okay. If you open up the most recent version of the working file, you can do a File > Save a Copy as > and convert this back to a standard VWX file or a new VWXP file.

 

If you do this, all users will want to take their current working files from the original project and save a copy as a started VWX file. Each user will then need to go to the newly created project file and get a NEW working file. They can then copy and paste in changes from the VWX file (old working file) into their new working file if needed.

 

Now, we will want to track down exactly what happened:

1) Can you give us a quick overview of how you are using project sharing? Are you working with the project file on a local server or a cloud storage option? Where are you saving your working files?

 

2) Were you working extensively in a specific part of the project over the past day? Ex. Were you working a lot in annotations or with a specific tool you didn’t work with in the project previously?

[Klaus Koch]

Thank you for your answer.
Sorry, I'm talking about a "project" because that's our term for all our jobs.
Vectorworks created the destroyed files with a simple vwx file, not a project file.

 

Usually I always draw 3-D models.

In this project there are also many 2D geometries to create, which we export as template for cam stations.