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Repairing corrupt gMax files?
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Hi Robin,
No, I have never seen a tool (or anything else) that is able to do that. On the other hand, I have never had a corrupt GMax file as well (only with that faulty windows update 2 years ago or so). So it should not be too much of a problem.
No, I have never seen a tool (or anything else) that is able to do that. On the other hand, I have never had a corrupt GMax file as well (only with that faulty windows update 2 years ago or so). So it should not be too much of a problem.
You can actually recover the objects in corrupted files, at least in most cases. Create a new empty scene, and with File -> Merge import the objects from the corrupted file into this new one and save.
If the file is corrupted beyond repair, you might find an older, automatic backup copy in gmax\autoback.
If the file is corrupted beyond repair, you might find an older, automatic backup copy in gmax\autoback.
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I tend to keep a rolling record of my last 5 saves (so have scene1, scene2, scene3 etc and save over the oldest when I save my project).
I find Gmax very occasionally (about 1 in 100 saves) spits out a corrupt file, and I've lost an entire months work before, by overwriting my active project with a corrupt copy.
I find Gmax very occasionally (about 1 in 100 saves) spits out a corrupt file, and I've lost an entire months work before, by overwriting my active project with a corrupt copy.
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Auto Backup
As Jvarje has already stated, there should be Auto
Backups somewhere.
Just change the .gx to .gmax and double click/click.
I have my auto backup set to 9 x every 5 minutes.
If you have not set Auto backup you will find it
in > Customize > Preferences > Files
As Jvarje has already stated, there should be Auto
Backups somewhere.
Just change the .gx to .gmax and double click/click.
I have my auto backup set to 9 x every 5 minutes.
If you have not set Auto backup you will find it
in > Customize > Preferences > Files
Happens to me a lot too.
Thanks to Jon Patch for another option. Go to customize on top, then preferences. Click the files tab. Selct auto increment on save.
Now when you save an open project, it will save as name01, name02, etc. Gets a little messy after a while if you do a lot of saves, but for me, it's better than loosing that month of work.
Thanks to Jon Patch for another option. Go to customize on top, then preferences. Click the files tab. Selct auto increment on save.
Now when you save an open project, it will save as name01, name02, etc. Gets a little messy after a while if you do a lot of saves, but for me, it's better than loosing that month of work.
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Hmmm... So... Any news?
A month's work went corrupted and I can't go to the backup files because meanwhile I've been doing other things in gmax other than the corrupted project and now I can't recover it no matter what... Normally my corrupted files go blank in notepad but this one isn't, it has all the needed parts in there. I can't merge it because the parts box doesn't appear I tried everything: searching for a way to convert the file to other format outside gmax I even tried to mislead the mdlcommander into thinking that a gmax file is a x file, but no luck....
It's probably a stupid character in the file...
I'd really hope there was a solution to this...
P.S. I attached the file, if someone can open it... I'd apreciate it!
A month's work went corrupted and I can't go to the backup files because meanwhile I've been doing other things in gmax other than the corrupted project and now I can't recover it no matter what... Normally my corrupted files go blank in notepad but this one isn't, it has all the needed parts in there. I can't merge it because the parts box doesn't appear I tried everything: searching for a way to convert the file to other format outside gmax I even tried to mislead the mdlcommander into thinking that a gmax file is a x file, but no luck....
It's probably a stupid character in the file...
I'd really hope there was a solution to this...
P.S. I attached the file, if someone can open it... I'd apreciate it!
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Why do you do that? Max/GMax will auto-increment every save for you, provided you've told it to do so in your Customization/Preferences/Files settings.
Rule #1 is: Never overwrite an existing source file!