Lost work after not saving

SketchUp Pro
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I lost 1/2 a day’s work.

  1. neglected to save; clicked on “Sleep.” 2) next day responded to dialog saying, in effect, what do you want to do? I hit “cancel” 3) Next it asks, Review or cancel? I click Review 4) Click Save.
    After this, upon opening the file, I get “This does not appear to be a SketchUp file.” Restart. Try again, same result. Shut down this time. Try again, this time the file names appears twice—one of them with a tilde at the end of the title. That one opens the previous day’s closing file. The file without the tilde: “This does not appear to be a SketchUp file.“ In SUP Preferences, I have auto-save set at every 5 minutes. Not sure where the auto-save file might be, Looked I Native Files—nothing current—and a folder, Autosave, but these look like AutoCAD files with “sv$” in the names.

Is there any way to retrieve the work? Please advise.

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Where were you saving the file? Can you share the file? There are ways to know if it’s recoverable or not. Are you still using sketchup 2023, sometimes there are corrupted components that newer versions are able to handle better.

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6079 M St SB9 = 4.9.25 Sch 1.2 St 1.5~.skp (13.8 MB)
Oops. The other file, without the tilde, is twice the size (27.2) and is disallowed due to its size.
Thank you very much for looking into this.
Best, Sambones

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The file I use is Documents.

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The file you sent is the Backup file.
The file without the tilde is the original one and you can use a file sharing service like WeTransfer and share the link here.

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The backup file opens ok. It is the previous save that you had done. If the new save is twice the size, that means you did a lot of work between saves.

It looks like you are still using SketchUp 2024. You can get to the auto save folder by using the Go menu in Finder. Choose Go to Folder… and paste in this path:

~/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2024/SketchUp/working/

Look for files with the same name as your file, probably 6079 M St SB9 = 4.9.25 Sch 1.2 St 1.5.skp

If it’s there, copy it to another folder, and see if it opens ok.

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Resolution seems to have come from the Cosmos:
The original sign of trouble was “This does not appear to be SketchUp file.” The backup was the backup—work appeared to be lost.
I had not tried to open the file itself …1.5… again (five tries yesterday and before) but trie again today and—blow me down—it opened to the last view from Friday! I am not sure how anything could have changed, but it did!
Why the file size doubled is that I copied and pasted a previous version of this project in order to harvest model parts for a different wing of the building. What I copied was a portion of a 40mb file.
Thank you Learned One and Colin

I will leave this open. If you have any additional insights, let me have it!

Best,

Sambones