My hard drive failed and I lost all my data (long story short). The data recovery company copied whatever they managed to recover, including some of my SketchUp models. Unfortunately, even though the SketchUp files have their file size and thumbnails, I can’t open them (most likely the file structure is corrupted – that’s what ChatGPT suggested). Sketchup is not opeining file and telling that model is an “ unexpected file format”. I don’t have /skb files of the recovery models, is there any chance I can recover this files?
0728453.skp (180 KB)
I’m attaching screenshots of what I see when I try to open the .skp files, as well as the properties window of a random SketchUp file and few sketchup files- I couldn’t attach one of the file that was too big . I’m also attaching a screenshot of the dialog window I get when opening .dwg files – most of them can’t be read either. *EDIT As a new user I coudl only attach one file, so i decidet to attach 1 of the models.
Has anyone had a similar issue and found a way to open corrupted .skp and .dwg files?
The data recovery company will now replace the drive heads or some other components to try to recover the data directly from the damaged disk and restore it with the proper folder structure. But it will take more weeks, and there’s no guarantee it will work or what can actually be recovered.
I would really appreciate any advice.