When I try to open my file I’ll see this pop-up “File not found or invalid”.
I use the newest version of Sketchup Pro on my Mac. The file is located on my computer (so not online).
The file is around 50 MB big.
I won’t see a solution in all the other topics. Please help me to recover this file. I was just finished so I am a bit disappointed that this problem occurred.
Do you know how the error was possible and how I can prevent it?
I’ve worked on the file in my online Dropbox storage. Is this possible why the error showed?
Dropbox, or saving to online file servers, is one of the things that could lead to problems. If the file server is backing up the file, or otherwise being read at exactly the same time that SketchUp is writing the file, could lead to issues with the file.
But, there are enough times where a file gets into this state when there wasn’t a remote file server involved, so there may be more than one cause for the issue.
In general, keep a copy of the files you are working on, and only open the copy if your main file gets corrupted.
Hi @Colin,
I have also have this problem, as my windows computer updated and nearly wiped all my work.
However I was able to recover my files, But when I try to open them, I get the message [“File not found or invalid"}
Many thanks for trying @dezmo. Yeh Its an annoyance, I’m currently blaming Microsoft.
Fingers crossed for @Colin although, Im a bit doubtful at this moment!
The file I tried already was the same 7 MB file. When I said the file I got was 1 MB, I meant after trying to recover it. So, nothing much in the recovered version.
Were you using components in your model. If you look through these sorts of threads you’ll see that generally the only thing that gets recovered is the components in the model.
It wasn’t my model unfortunately, but I think it was a combination of components and groups.
Currently working up a re-model, Ill make sure I have backup this time!
Thanks
Hi @colin, I have that ‘file not found or invalid’ issue too…
could you help? file is on the cloud, I can see the thumbnail but opens blank. anyways I downloaded it that way and here is the link… https://we.tl/t-maUUevJuBs
thanks in advance…
Buenos días @colin , llevo solo tres semanas utilizando sketchup, soy nueva aquí.
Esta mañana al intentar abrir mi archivo me encontré con el mismo error “formato de archivo inesperado”. Yo tengo el archivo en mi ordenador, y ayer mientras trabajaba importé unos modelos de una versión anterior y no me dejaba guardar el archivo, dándome el siguiente error:
“La función de guardado automático tuvo un error debido a una ruta de archivo no válida (C:/Users/mjcon/AppData/Roaming/…/Local/SketchUp/SketchUp 2019/SketchUp/working/SKETCHUP/RecoveredFiles/modelo_1.skp) o a permisos no suficientes. Por favor arregla esto yendo a Preferencias de SketchUp > Archivos y especificando una ruta válida con acceso de escritura para ‘Modelos:’.”
La única solución que encontré fue eliminar esos componentes que había importado, y pareció que guardaba el archivo sin problema. Pero esta mañana no abre. Envío en el siguiente enlace:
Thank you @colin for taking your time.
I did not upload a shortcut, but I had to download it after the file is already corrupted. No backups in hard disk
The file is 3.7mb on the cloud.
do you think can we at least save the components?
