Re: [Gimp-user] Xcf file Corrupt!? Please Help!

2012-09-21 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Kfayejessee for...@gimpusers.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Kfayejessee for...@gimpusers.com wrote:
 So I have been working on this painting for over a week…

Rule #1: Perform regular backups
Rule #2: See Rule #1

Sorry for the semi-snarky response, but it is a good set of rules and
will save you time and heartache when things really go wrong ;)

When I'm working on File-01.xcf, after an hour or two of work I do
Save As and name that File-02.xcf, and so on.  And there are
plug-ins in the registry that automatically make incremental backups.


My first guess as to the the cause of the corruption is hardware.  A
full or failing disk, corrupt RAM, etc.  Or I've had issues with
saving to flaky shared storage.  The prognosis is not good if it's any
of these.

What version of GIMP are you using (see Help-About)?  What
operating system?  Are you saving to an internal hard drive, or
external storage? Can you post a link to the XCF online somewhere?

Chris


 I did make a back up...but it still cuts out about five hours of my work...i 
 guess if there isn't any way to fix it then i will just work over night to 
 finish...lame!

You know, if you have that much time invested into the work, it would
make sense to back it up a bit more often. Perhaps however, having
been affected by this, you could file a bug report/feature request for
a safer saving mechanism?
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[Gimp-user] Xcf file Corrupt!? Please Help!

2012-09-20 Thread Kfayejessee
So I have been working on this painting for over a week…it is VERY important 
that I get it in by my deadline. However, I went to open it back up this 
morning to do some work on it and…it only had three layers. I tried to stay 
calm and closed the program and reopened it but a little popup came up and it 
said “This XCF file is corrupt!  I have loaded as much of it as I can, but it 
is incomplete.” Please, please, please tell me I can just restart my computer, 
or if there is a “fix all” button somewhere! I have GIMP 2...and it has never 
done this to me before.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Xcf file Corrupt!? Please Help!

2012-09-20 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Kfayejessee for...@gimpusers.com wrote:
 So I have been working on this painting for over a week…

Rule #1: Perform regular backups
Rule #2: See Rule #1

Sorry for the semi-snarky response, but it is a good set of rules and
will save you time and heartache when things really go wrong ;)

When I'm working on File-01.xcf, after an hour or two of work I do
Save As and name that File-02.xcf, and so on.  And there are
plug-ins in the registry that automatically make incremental backups.


My first guess as to the the cause of the corruption is hardware.  A
full or failing disk, corrupt RAM, etc.  Or I've had issues with
saving to flaky shared storage.  The prognosis is not good if it's any
of these.

What version of GIMP are you using (see Help-About)?  What
operating system?  Are you saving to an internal hard drive, or
external storage? Can you post a link to the XCF online somewhere?

Chris
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[Gimp-user] Xcf file Corrupt!? Please Help!

2012-09-20 Thread Kfayejessee
So I have been working on this painting for over a week…it is VERY important 
that I get it in by my deadline. However, I went to open it back up this 
morning to do some work on it and…it only had three layers. I tried to stay 
calm and closed the program and reopened it but a little popup came up and it 
said “This XCF file is corrupt!  I have loaded as much of it as I can, but it 
is incomplete.” Please, please, please tell me I can just restart my computer, 
or if there is a “fix all” button somewhere! I have GIMP 2...and it has never 
done this to me before.

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