Hi I am a victim of the “Unexpected File Format” error, even the backup file is corrupted. The weird thing is that the thumbnail works perfectly I have read that @colin can help restoring some components. I would appreciate if so Thank you so so much! Here are the files (original, back up): Esc…

Hi @colin I have the same problem with my file. I already tried other applications, even imported it in AutoCAD but it won’t read the file. It is an autosave file which I copied in my old unit and I could not find the original file. Is there any way that the content be recovered? Here is the link o…

There is nothing in the scene, but most of the file size is recovered. Hopefully you had some components that included large areas of the scene. https://we.tl/t-yCYqtQOCjE

Hi, @colin . Thank you so much for your help! I apologize for that. It’s weird because there is an image of the project in the icon. I tried to reupload the file. Hopefully, you could recheck it: Dropbox - File Deleted Again, thank you so much.

There was something you misunderstood. I was saying that in my recovered version there is nothing in the scene, that’s because I could only recover the components and materials, and couldn’t recover the model scene content. I’m sure that your original file does have content in the scene. So, from t…

Recover parts of “Unexpected file format”

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colin July 23, 2021, 4:58pm 2

Unfortunately, I could get almost nothing from either file.

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