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xcf file corrupt?

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xcf file corrupt? curseofdark 17 Sep 02:52
  xcf file corrupt? Richard Gitschlag 17 Sep 13:52
   xcf file corrupt? curseofdark 17 Sep 18:16
xcf file corrupt? Jernej Simončič 17 Sep 18:53
  xcf file corrupt? curseofdark 17 Sep 21:00
  xcf file corrupt? Maarten De Munck 18 Sep 05:35
   xcf file corrupt? Jehan Pagès 18 Sep 19:18
curseofdark
2012-09-17 02:52:25 UTC (over 12 years ago)
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xcf file corrupt?

GIMP closed while I was in the middle of saving an image and is now telling me that the xcf is corrupt and that there is no usable data in it even though the file is the same size as it was before the crash. This is the third or fourth time it's done this to me and any help would be incredibly appreciated. I'd include the file but this is the first time I've posted here and I don't know how

Richard Gitschlag
2012-09-17 13:52:09 UTC (over 12 years ago)

xcf file corrupt?

Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:52:25 +0200 From: forums@gimpusers.com
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Subject: [Gimp-user] xcf file corrupt?

GIMP closed while I was in the middle of saving an image and is now telling me that the xcf is corrupt and that there is no usable data in it even though the file is the same size as it was before the crash. This is the third or fourth time it's done this to me and any help would be incredibly appreciated. I'd include the file but this is the first time I've posted here and I don't know how

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Okay, but first we need to know a few things.

- Your particular build of GIMP (version number, OS) - The exact wording of any error message GIMP may have generated when it "closed"

Both of these are very important. -- Stratadrake
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Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth.

curseofdark
2012-09-17 18:16:19 UTC (over 12 years ago)
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xcf file corrupt?

Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:52:25 +0200 From: forums@gimpusers.com
To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org
CC: team@gimpusers.com
Subject: [Gimp-user] xcf file corrupt?

GIMP closed while I was in the middle of saving an image and is now telling me that the xcf is corrupt and that there is no usable data in it even though the file is the same size as it was before the crash. This is the third or fourth time it's done this to me and any help would be incredibly appreciated. I'd include the file but this is the first time I've posted here and I don't know how

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Okay, but first we need to know a few things.

- Your particular build of GIMP (version number, OS) - The exact wording of any error message GIMP may have generated when it "closed"

Both of these are very important. -- Stratadrake
strata_ranger@hotmail.com
--------------------
Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth.

I'm using 2.6.11 on windows 7, and GIMP closed because of a computer crash not a program error, sorry I wasn't more specific! The computer crashed in the middle of saving the image and now when I try to open it, it give me the 'Opening 'C:\Users\Master\Pictures\My Scans\nerfed copy.xcf' failed: This XCF file is corrupt! I could not even salvage any partial image data from it.' error but when I go to the image properties it looks like all the data is still there

Jernej Simončič
2012-09-17 18:53:03 UTC (over 12 years ago)

xcf file corrupt?

On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:16:19 +0200, curseofdark wrote:

I'm using 2.6.11 on windows 7, and GIMP closed because of a computer crash not a program error, sorry I wasn't more specific! The computer crashed in the middle of saving the image

This is the problem - if the machine crashed while the file was being written, it's possible that only a small amount of data reached the disk. Since the metadata (file name, size etc.) is updated by the OS independently, the file still looks like it has the old size, but in reality, most of that space is empty or garbage.

curseofdark
2012-09-17 21:00:22 UTC (over 12 years ago)
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xcf file corrupt?

On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:16:19 +0200, curseofdark wrote:

I'm using 2.6.11 on windows 7, and GIMP closed because of a computer crash not a program error, sorry I wasn't more specific! The computer crashed in the middle of saving the image

This is the problem - if the machine crashed while the file was being written, it's possible that only a small amount of data reached the disk. Since the metadata (file name, size etc.) is updated by the OS independently, the file still looks like it has the old size, but in reality, most of that space is empty or garbage.

Alright thanks, guess I'll just screen capture the thumbnail and start over from there x.x

Maarten De Munck
2012-09-18 05:35:06 UTC (over 12 years ago)

xcf file corrupt?

Jernej Simončič schreef op ma 17-09-2012 om 20:53 [+0200]:

This is the problem - if the machine crashed while the file was being written, it's possible that only a small amount of data reached the disk. Since the metadata (file name, size etc.) is updated by the OS independently, the file still looks like it has the old size, but in reality, most of that space is empty or garbage.

It would be nice if Gimp (as e.g. Cinepaint does) saves the file to filename.tmp and moves that file to filename if finished correctly. That way, an error during the save process doesn't corrupt the original file.

Jehan Pagès
2012-09-18 19:18:12 UTC (over 12 years ago)

xcf file corrupt?

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Maarten De Munck wrote:

Jernej Simončič schreef op ma 17-09-2012 om 20:53 [+0200]:

This is the problem - if the machine crashed while the file was being written, it's possible that only a small amount of data reached the disk. Since the metadata (file name, size etc.) is updated by the OS independently, the file still looks like it has the old size, but in reality, most of that space is empty or garbage.

It would be nice if Gimp (as e.g. Cinepaint does) saves the file to filename.tmp and moves that file to filename if finished correctly. That way, an error during the save process doesn't corrupt the original file.

I agree. This is a must-have feature in any high grade software. Would be cool to add this feature to Gimp.

Jehan