Hi Ronald, Just a curiosity ,
are you able to open the file in another machine ? Thanks Ivan On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Toonafish <[email protected]> wrote: > I was able to retrieve some crucial bits from the corrupted scene with > the Journal File and reloading the scene several times, so not everything > is lost. Thanks for the tip Rob, and for the help everyone. > > cheers, > > - Ronald > > > > On 1/11/2013 18:54, Toonafish wrote: > > Thanks, I'll need to give it a shot if I don't want to loose a days work. > Seems like all backups are corrupt as well. > > The weird thing is I was able to load the last backup scene, and saved it > under a new name. Then started redoing what was lost. But when reloading > the redo scene Softimage crashes again, and now I can also no longer load > any of the backuped scenes I could retrieve one of just 20 minutes ago. A > scene that was fine and has not been changed is suddenly corrupt...it's > voodoo I tell you. > > Gonna check it tomorrow, I suspect I need some beer as well ;-) > > Have a nice weekend. > > - Ronald > > > > > On 1/11/2013 18:33, Rob Chapman wrote: > > Ronald think you just give the path for the journal - default is nothing.. > > yes friday, drinking beer eating crisps time in the office! :D its > only emergency like scene crashing if you have a client deadline! > > hope it works for you but its not a magic solution, eg Fabrice here said > 2 out 10 times success rate > > > > On 11 January 2013 17:27, Toonafish <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> in preferences>data management as far as I remember when I last had this >>> and was helped, it creates a text file that tells you what models are >>> loading and then on the next load it skips the ones that it finds bad? >>> >> >> Is that the "Recovery Journal file" ? Do you remember where softimage >> writes the text file ? >> >> >> >>> its a shot in the dark at least >>> >>> you do realise its friday > 5pm though and this kind of stuff is *meant* >>> to happen. >>> >> >> I smell a conspiracy ;-) >> >> >> - Ronald >> > > > >
