Re: [Qgis-user] Help! QGIS crashed and has deleted my QGZ file

2021-04-19 Thread Nicolas Cadieux 

Hi

If you have Windows 10 and have activated "Back up using File History" 
(Setting/Update and Security/Backup) you may have a copy of the 
file.  If your files disappeared for no reasons, I would seriously scan 
your hard drive in case you are seeing indications of a drive failier.


Good Luck

Nicolas

On 2021-04-19 8:56 a.m., j...@john-firth-editor.co.uk wrote:


I’m using QGIS 3.16.0 on Windows 10, standalone PC. I have taken some 
training, but am a pretty inexpert user. The map that I’ve spent 
several months developing (for a book I’m writing) crashed on 
Saturday, and when I tried to load it just now it is greyed out in the 
Open Recent list (with an exclamation mark next to it) and File 
Explorer no longer finds it on my hard disk.


I attempted to do what your website advised (downloaded DeBug View, 
which did not appear to run on my computer). When the file crashed, I 
had just added a couple of entries to an attribute table (it’s not a 
large one, though there are others in the file). I’ve no doubt someone 
more expert than I am could tell me how to extract a crash report, if 
that would be helpful.


Is there any chance of saving my map?



John Firth

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Proofreading


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Re: [Qgis-user] Help! QGIS crashed and has deleted my QGZ file

2021-04-19 Thread john 
Thanks for quick reply, Kirk. I'm going to look into restoring from the
back-up before Saturday (I need to make a living for the rest of today), but
what prompted my concern was that the project file (QGZ) is not found by
File Explorer, either in the folder I used to store it in or in the Recycle
Bin. There's no previously saved version, no .TMP version (I don't know
whether QGIS sets these up); nothing. The explanation mark that QGIS placed
next to its title in the Open Recent line would probably tell me more, if
the line weren't greyed-out.

 

A number of the other files are still present (including, interestingly, the
shapefile that I modified just before the crash); but I should probably have
kept a separate list of these somewhere as I can't tell from looking down
the list whether they are all present. (As usual, burnt hand teaches best.)

 

So, having calmed down a bit, I should be able to recover my work with only
a day or so lost (unless I find that the backup won't restore properly). But
I am fairly concerned that a large file has apparently disappeared as a
result of a crash.



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From: Kirk Schmidt  
Sent: 19 April 2021 14:16
To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Help! QGIS crashed and has deleted my QGZ file

 

Hi John:

I am sorry to hear about your crash.  It is important to note that QGIS
provides a means of querying, updating, analysing and displaying data that
is stored outside of the software (in a variety of formats).  SO, I would
suggest looking for the actual spatial files(s) that you were editing when
it crashed.  I assume they still exist, however, depending on the data
format, you probably would have lost the attributes you were editing at the
time of the crash. 

The QGIS project file may also have been corrupted at the time of the crash.
You may have to use a backup to restore your last saved version.

I hope this helps

Kirk Schmidt  

On 4/19/2021 9:56 AM, j...@john-firth-editor.co.uk
<mailto:j...@john-firth-editor.co.uk>  wrote:

I'm using QGIS 3.16.0 on Windows 10, standalone PC. I have taken some
training, but am a pretty inexpert user. The map that I've spent several
months developing (for a book I'm writing) crashed on Saturday, and when I
tried to load it just now it is greyed out in the Open Recent list (with an
exclamation mark next to it) and File Explorer no longer finds it on my hard
disk.

 

I attempted to do what your website advised (downloaded DeBug View, which
did not appear to run on my computer). When the file crashed, I had just
added a couple of entries to an attribute table (it's not a large one,
though there are others in the file). I've no doubt someone more expert than
I am could tell me how to extract a crash report, if that would be helpful.

 

Is there any chance of saving my map?



John Firth



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Re: [Qgis-user] Help! QGIS crashed and has deleted my QGZ file

2021-04-19 Thread Kirk Schmidt 

Hi John:

I am sorry to hear about your crash.  It is important to note that QGIS 
provides a means of querying, updating, analysing and displaying data 
that is stored outside of the software (in a variety of formats).  SO, I 
would suggest looking for the actual spatial files(s) that you were 
editing when it crashed.  I assume they still exist, however, depending 
on the data format, you probably would have lost the attributes you were 
editing at the time of the crash.


The QGIS project file may also have been corrupted at the time of the 
crash.  You may have to use a backup to restore your last saved version.


I hope this helps

Kirk Schmidt

On 4/19/2021 9:56 AM, j...@john-firth-editor.co.uk wrote:


I’m using QGIS 3.16.0 on Windows 10, standalone PC. I have taken some 
training, but am a pretty inexpert user. The map that I’ve spent 
several months developing (for a book I’m writing) crashed on 
Saturday, and when I tried to load it just now it is greyed out in the 
Open Recent list (with an exclamation mark next to it) and File 
Explorer no longer finds it on my hard disk.


I attempted to do what your website advised (downloaded DeBug View, 
which did not appear to run on my computer). When the file crashed, I 
had just added a couple of entries to an attribute table (it’s not a 
large one, though there are others in the file). I’ve no doubt someone 
more expert than I am could tell me how to extract a crash report, if 
that would be helpful.


Is there any chance of saving my map?



John Firth

Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and 
Proofreading


On 1 March 2020 a Royal Charter was given to the Society for Editors 
and Proofreaders (SfEP), which is now the *Chartered Institute of 
Editing and Proofreading*.


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in touch. If you are happy for me to do this, please reply to this 
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[Qgis-user] Help! QGIS crashed and has deleted my QGZ file

2021-04-19 Thread john 
I'm using QGIS 3.16.0 on Windows 10, standalone PC. I have taken some
training, but am a pretty inexpert user. The map that I've spent several
months developing (for a book I'm writing) crashed on Saturday, and when I
tried to load it just now it is greyed out in the Open Recent list (with an
exclamation mark next to it) and File Explorer no longer finds it on my hard
disk.

 

I attempted to do what your website advised (downloaded DeBug View, which
did not appear to run on my computer). When the file crashed, I had just
added a couple of entries to an attribute table (it's not a large one,
though there are others in the file). I've no doubt someone more expert than
I am could tell me how to extract a crash report, if that would be helpful.

 

Is there any chance of saving my map?



John Firth



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Proofreaders (SfEP), which is now the Chartered Institute of Editing and
Proofreading.

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