Help!! File cannot open!

[Crash]

If it's a file open error then you oughta get back to the drawing board unless you have a backup file. That's preatty simple, just set beck files to 9 and turn on autosave for 5 minutes, so simple, and no more tears are going to be shed :p . Greetz:beer:

[magicm]

Check if you have enough free space on you windows-disk. max needs to have free space in the temp-dir..

If this doesn't solve the problem, I'm afraid your file is corrupt... (if your maxfile is 0kb in size, it's definately broke).
:thumbsdow

good luck!

[Tex3D]

Well I definitely have the room, and the file is 968kb in size, but the darned thing just doesn't wanna open.

I was hoping to bring this one back to life before resorting to the backup files and having to start all over on some areas, but it seems that I may have to anyways.

I just can't believe that MAX doesn't have a recover function in it like AutoCAD. I guess having the same parents doesn't necessarily insure things like that.

Thanx Guys!:wavey:

[magicm]

If you want, you can email the maxfile to me.. Not that I have some sort of secret maxfile-recoverer (sadly), but maybe it's something with your max and/or system configuration that's causing this?... just wild guesses though..

[Tex3D]

I tried throwing it on my laptop and trying it there. No dice either. I looked at my backup file and it's not too terribly behind. I suppose.

I am modeling simple conveyor so I suppose I should whine too much. It just bugs the hell out of me that there isnt any way to parse these files. This isn't the first time that this has happened.

I wonder what the big time studios do ?? I guess they autosave and backup the hell out of everything.

-Dave

[Tex3D]

By the way, Thanks MagicM for the offer, but my boss would chop my nuts off if I sent out a file. LOL He's kinda paranoid.

Thanks anyways:beer:

-Dave

[jarch]

You might try importing the file into another program if you have one that will read Max files. Or try opening the file with a viewer like R.H. Deep Exploration (which we use).

They may filter out any bad scripts, etc.

j :)

[uday]

well... piece of advice that it dont happen again...
see that incremental save button? USE IT!!!
this is no flame...but 3 hours and no backup will get you into this problem.

sorry about the loss but again....u know why:rolleyes:

[Tex3D]

Now don't forget here people, I DID save as often as possible, and I assumed that the file would be workable today. My computer didn't crash or anything yesterday. It's as if the file decided over night that it didnt wanna work.

I didnt lose part of the file, I lost the WHOLE thing.:annoyed:

I didn't think I'd have to set my incremental that high because I save manually every 20 or 30 minutes.

By the way Jarch, that isn't a bad idea. I don't have any viewer prog to do this, but I may be able to parlay this "tragedy" into my boss springing for a copy. I should have thought of that earlier:thumbsup:

-Dave

[uday]

cont be so touchy....if u save incremental every 15 /20 minutes then theres no reason you should have lost 3 hours of work as youve originally posted.
now dont get irritated for what i m gonna say.:p

incremental is that lil plus sign that will save ur file as myfile.max1
myfile.max2
myfile. max3
and so on....
so when theres a big unexplainable crappy ass problem..
u just go back to the previous version.personally i find it helpful for more reasons than above.
i can go back to where i thought it was what i wanted and rework the scene.then compaee if i need to....:lightbulb

[Tex3D]

Well that's actually a good idea. I didn't mean to snap or anything, but you can see how frustrating it is to save every 20 minutes or less and the damn thing doesn't work. Usually when I lose files it's due to a blue screen of death or power failure or some other thing. :shrug:

I think I need to unplug and go get some chinese food. That always makes life better. :drool:

-Dave

PS. I'll definitely start doing incrementals more often. I don't like getting burned more than once.

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