DaSquade 0 Posted July 2, 2008 So i was pretty lazy the last few months due to RL and other things. But two days ago i decided to make an MK11 for fun. Made good progress and was nearly done. Worked until 4 in the night, saved the file onto my external HD where i always store my files.... As always i wait a few seconds and listen to the HD if it still makes any reading/writting noise. Heard nothing, so like often when it has to go fast i shut down the external HD. All of the sudden i get an error saying something about unexpected shutdown and changed where not saved... Had one bad experience with simular thing in the past, looks i still haven't learned it. After checking the file in question, yep i'm f**ed and i get an "unable to load. Load error". File itself still has 1.70mb of data. I tried converting it with p3d2obj tool, but the obj also doesn't contain any model (572 bytes). I was wondering if somebody knows if there is a change to recover something from the damaged file? For those who have something on the file for recovering testing: Damaged Stoner MK11 p3d RIP Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gargantua 0 Posted July 2, 2008 your file is half filled with zeroes so there\s no chance to recover _this_ file. I recommend to try R-studio or smth to seee if you can get some more data from your HDD Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Synide 0 Posted July 2, 2008 I had a quick look at your file... I could recover what is available in the file but as Gargantua points out the stuff that is there peaters out fairly rapidly to nothingness... I agree with him too... try R-Studio... it saved my arse a few years back... it's just me... but I shy'd away from external HDD's a few years ago after an expensive and disheartening similar story to yours... I'll try recovering what you have got in the file and send it back to you... but don't hold your breath... Ok... I managed to recover a portion of 1 LOD and I called it 1.0... I got all the verts & normals & 8490 of the original 9772 faces in this LOD... at the 8490th face all the data ran out I'm sorry... forwarded you the link via PM. good luck. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scubaman3D 0 Posted July 2, 2008 d'oh! I'm sorry to hear that DS. I was looking forward to seeing how this came out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DaSquade 0 Posted July 2, 2008 Wee, like told in the PM....big thanks for the stuff that could be recovered. Indeed the stuff that was added in the last modelsession got more or less lost, but vertexes still remained so in the end no big lose as with some patient i can rebuild it pretty fast. Named selections and edge hardness got lost aswell, but i suppose that is due to the recovery. Like i asked, if possible can you explain how you did the recovery? Might be handy but informative for others... @Scuba: You are lucky after all. Maybe not as the model might be a future replacement , so more work... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
