Can't open file after windows crash

[Pegi]

Dear, after crashing windows i can't open file, please help me recover file

Information
Inkscape 0.47pre2 r22153, built Aug 24 2009
XP SP3

e-mail: <email address hidden>

Thanks in advance

[su_v (suv-lp)]

see <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/407115/comments/9> and download the recovered file from there.

Can you reproduce the steps that led to the crash? Is this the same cause as described your previous bug report #407115: not enough space on a USB stick?

The bug tracker isn't meant to be a recovery service - it's meant to figure out why Inkscape crashed and to fix it. For this it would be helpful if you could provide more information about why and how Inkscape crashed.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Since you are already using a 0.47 prerelease build - did you see the new Autosave feature? Might help in case of further os or inkscape crashes:

"Autosave has now been added to allow for automatic timed backups as work goes on. Saved versions are put in a designated directory and do not overwrite the original SVG file and each other. Go to Inkscape Preferences, Autosave tab, to enable this feature and specify the backup time interval, the directory, and the maximum number of saved backups (if this number is exceeded, old backups will start to be deleted). "
<http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.47#Autosave>

[Pegi (pcuklin)]

Dear,
I want to apologize for method how i get recovered file, i work on this very
long time and i was concerned for my work.
Thanks a lot for recovered file. Thanks for information about Autosave
feature. I'm downloading new pre release 3 and will install on my comp.
If I will problem with crashing could i sent to you request for recover on
<email address hidden> and for bug report separate e-mail on Launchpad
?

P.S. About last crash: I worked on splash ( I opened file from USB ). At one
point Windows crashed. After that I can't open file.

Thank you for understanding.
Best regards

Predrag

2009/10/1 ~suv <email address hidden>

> Since you are already using a 0.47 prerelease build - did you see the
> new Autosave feature? Might help in case of further os or inkscape
> crashes:
>
> "Autosave has now been added to allow for automatic timed backups as work
> goes on. Saved versions are put in a designated directory and do not
> overwrite the original SVG file and each other. Go to Inkscape Preferences,
> Autosave tab, to enable this feature and specify the backup time interval,
> the directory, and the maximum number of saved backups (if this number is
> exceeded, old backups will start to be deleted). "
> <http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.47#Autosave>
>
> --
> Can't open file after windows crash
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439600
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Inkscape: A Vector Drawing Tool: New
>
> Bug description:
> Dear, after crashing windows i can't open file, please help me recover file
>
> Information
> Inkscape 0.47pre2 r22153, built Aug 24 2009
> XP SP3
>
> e-mail: <email address hidden>
>
> Thanks in advance
>

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Let's wait and see how the autosave feature helps you to always have a recent copy of your current drawing available. The files are too big for my personal inbox - I'd rather leave bug tracker related items handled via launchpad.

But with the new prerelease build
- you will get a warning if there's no place on disk do write the file
- you can autosave a copy of the current drawing in the background
this should to prevent (hopefully) the last two cases of data loss.

To recover the files, I open them in a simple texteditor (TextEdit on OS X) that can handle big files, and look at the end of the file:
- if the last '<path' element misses obviously some parts (nodes, style attributes etc.) I remove it
- then I have to figure out how many open '<g ...' elements I need to close with </g>
- the last line is </svg>

basic rule: every tag needs to be closed like
 <svg>... </svg>
 <g id="layer1" ...> ... </g>
 <path style="..." ... id="..." />
 ...

hth, ~suv

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Marking this report duplicate of (fixed) Bug #167801 "data loss when saving with no disk space left". Feel free to revert this change and comment if you think they are different issues.