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Xcf file Corrupt!? Please Help!

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Xcf file Corrupt!? Please Help! Kfayejessee 20 Sep 20:43
  Xcf file Corrupt!? Please Help! Chris Mohler 20 Sep 21:19
   Xcf file Corrupt!? Please Help! Kfayejessee 21 Sep 03:43
    Xcf file Corrupt!? Please Help! Oon-Ee Ng 21 Sep 07:39
     Xcf file Corrupt!? Please Help! scl 21 Sep 16:28
Xcf file Corrupt!? Please Help! Kfayejessee 21 Sep 03:39
Kfayejessee
2012-09-20 20:43:53 UTC (about 12 years ago)
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Xcf file Corrupt!? Please Help!

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.

Chris Mohler
2012-09-20 21:19:36 UTC (about 12 years ago)

Xcf file Corrupt!? Please Help!

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Kfayejessee 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

Kfayejessee
2012-09-21 03:39:47 UTC (about 12 years ago)
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Xcf file Corrupt!? Please Help!

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.

Kfayejessee
2012-09-21 03:43:57 UTC (about 12 years ago)
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Xcf file Corrupt!? Please Help!

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Kfayejessee 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!

Oon-Ee Ng
2012-09-21 07:39:16 UTC (about 12 years ago)

Xcf file Corrupt!? Please Help!

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Kfayejessee wrote:

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Kfayejessee 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?

scl
2012-09-21 16:28:47 UTC (about 12 years ago)

Xcf file Corrupt!? Please Help!

On 21.09.12 at 09:39 am Oon-Ee Ng wrote:

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?

Nice idea. We already have some Autosave or Versioning feature requests in Bugzilla.
You find them at
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122934, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138373 and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148931.

Please read them first and - if you have new ideas on that topic - try to amend them rather than filing a new bug report. A code contribution would be appreciated as well ;-)

Kind regards,

Sven