Hey! I know a ton of people are asking this question, but I am still inquiring for some recent solution discoveries since I am desperate to recover my file.
See, I’ve worked on this sketch up file for about 6 hours, and as a student, I am currently getting crushed by many projects and deadlines, and simply can’t afford to restart my whole construction. Basically, I get this message of “File not Found or Invalid” and sadly deleted my autosave version and earlier files. I am holding on this only file that just can’t seem to open, even tho I can see a clear thumbnail and the weight of the file seems very accurate. I just can’t get through that wall of accessing it…Please help
I haven’t yet managed to rescue a model to the point that you see anything in the scene, but I can usually rescue components. If you used components a lot I might be able to get something of use. Put the file online somewhere and then put the link to the file in your reply. I use wetransfer.com for doing that, but you may have your own preference.
On the general question of file not found or invalid, I found that we have a critical bug open about the issue, and I have been adding other example files to that. I could include yours too.
There seem to be a lot of rocks components in there, is that how you had it? Not sure I’ve rescued much that is of any use, but for what it’s worth, here’s the rescued file:
WeTransfer only keeps the file for a short time. Anyone reading this post later won’t be able to get the file.
I can try. Go to https://wetransfer.com, go to the Free version, click the three blue dots to get a transfer link. Drag the bad file onto your browser window, then click the Get Link button. Reply here with that link.
I can try, but I gave your current file to someone else to see what can be done. You could give me the oldest file that may be of some use, then if I get somewhere with it you could give me a later file. If I fail with the oldest of the files, I’m likely to fail with the newer ones.
Hello, I have the same issue here with a file, could you please try to help me on that??
I have no backup file, and after put it on cloud when I download it just don’t open.
I am really frustrated to the point that I want to switch to another software after having this samme issue every few months. Please help me to save the file which when I try to open it says “invalid file” or error, or the program just crashes…
That file is zero bytes. Can you check the size of the file you’re uploading?
Do you use Time Machine on your Mac? With that you can go back each hour for the last day, and each day for the last month. That’s usually plenty to be able to go back in time looking for the last version of the file that was good.
I will try to find out, Can you please convert these files into sketchup model, as I was trying to model them in MAX and want to continue in Sketchup but any time I am importing the files into Sketchup - Sketcup is crashing.