recovery and safe mode

[Thomas]

I there a safe mode on Inkscape where the goal is to recovery an heavy svg file.

I vectorise an bitmap photo and now it's not possible to open this file and delete the picture without inkscape crash. Inkscape take more than 5Gio. the svg itself take 82Mio.

I want delete this too big picture from my svg file to save my previous work.

Thanks

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Could you please give your OS and Inkscape version? Some memory related crashes in 0.48.x are now fixed in the development version. The Inkscape website gives some links if you want to test it (see http://inkscape.org/en/download/).

> Is there a safe mode on Inkscape

No real safe mode. The next major version will allow users to control what to do with invalid style properties and invalid attributes in the SVG code, but it won't help you.

You can hand edit your file with a text editor and remove the image element if you think it is the cause of your crash. Just get rid of the <image /> element with all its attributes (probably a very big xlink:href!) and your document should be a bit lighter (and hopefully open correctly without crashing).

[Thomas (thomas-pabst)]

I use inkscape on ubuntu 13.10. It seems that's the 0.48.4 released. I use it on debian testing right now.
Finaly i could recover my file.
I set the resolution to 800x600 on a single scrren, I put th maximum thread I could on inkscape preferences and also affect more memory to inkscape buffer. so I open the concerned file select the bad object and delete it and wait while nearly 5 hours and save the file.

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

I think we're probably talking about two separate issues here...

1. a crash when working with very large files: this is now fixed, as you said in comment #2
2. a request for a "safe mode" for recovering documents that caused a crash when rendered in Inkscape.

For the second point, there is already a request (bug #1280880) for a crash recovery feature. I'll add a note to that report about the possibility of switching Inkscape into a safe mode, and close this report.

Please feel free to reopen, or make a separate report if there are any issues that haven't been addressed

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Sorry... I meant bug #171424 as the other bug report!