Please don’t yell at us.(All caps means shouting)
The file seems to be filled 60% with zeros. Do you have the backup file (.skb)?
Opened my project files tonight to be greeted with the post Halloween Sketchup message telling me…
Failed to open document!!! ^#%÷^÷&£
Thank goodness for backup renaming.
.what is the culprit for this horror mesaage??
I see many have experienced this…
Any guidance please as this could effect a users health!
some possible reasons:
-using a cracked version of SketchUp.
-working directly from or saving directly to the cloud (except Trimble Connect).
-working directly from or saving directly to a live syncing folder on your internal drive.
-working directly from or saving directly to an external harddrive.
-working directly from or saving directly to a USB- stick.
-Windows crashing.
-(new one since today) Windows not waking up after sleeping mode, forcing a reboot…
Lol… i worked always from my pc hard drive. Copied the completed files over to Google Drive.
Tonight copied the saved files over to my pc hard drive . Open up and boom! Glad i use skb’s
So really sketchup backups dont become corrupt?
Gasp!
Sometimes they get corrupted too.
In addition to saving your file on your local drive, take advantage of the unlimited storage you have with Trimble Connect and ALSO save the files there. And each time you save the file to Trimble Connect you get an incremental save so you can go back to an earlyier version if you ever need to.
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Yes aware of that - so Saving to Trimble Connect is the solution rather than saving to your hard drives?
should be a public announcement i feel
Lol
It’s a known issue that the SketchUp team hasn’t yet been able, AFAIK, to reproduce. As @tweenulzeven 's list shows, it seems to happen most often when saving over the network.
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No. Save to Trimble Connect, too. This will give you an additional copy in a separate location.
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My best guess? They got corrupted while copying to Google Drive or while copying them back to your internal drive. If you copied them, does your original file on your hard drive open correctly?
Or did you overwrite that when copying back from Google Drive to your hard drive??
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OK yes first time ive seen this myself - so stay SAVE SAVE SAVE in several locations
fanxs
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I agree with that, givven the number of people having issues with corrupted files…
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Yes really is not for the feint hearted when working under pressure. Maybe some kind of Trimble Connect Autosave option appearing to the user with a “strongly recommended” box to click saying Always Save to my TC
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Yes, just remember: don’t do it “live”. Save locally first. Only then make a backup!
(saving to a live synced folder gives you a backup… or a corrupted file…)
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Yes im not a fan of saving live and recommend clients to save to hard drive and copy to hard drive - this is why im very surprised to experience this kind of creature tonight and for a customer working on any live project with expecatons to deliver certainly it is not good - i vote for a Trimble Connect AutoSave option running in the background please
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This issue combined with your toolbar problems points to a potential issue with your windows setup. I don’t have any specific advise for you but it does sound like you have some sort of permissions, read/write problems.
All of a sudden? Do you have any further info?.. event viewer and object access auditing,
No not really, anything else I could say would be just guessing and I wouldn’t suggest that. I only mentioned it to give you something to look into. It was just that the two things together point to something with your system rather than something with sketchup.
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Yes so if there has bene a change then its bene today - i have edited the set the Audit object access for any future changes - i wil send this to Skp main support to see if they can dig deeper on this - i wil update you - appreciate your reach our Box - ive had similar reports from users - so it could be to do with windows updates - i shall push this to HQ
Good afternoon, please help, this is very important, the SKP file doesn’t open, I suspect it’s because of its large volume, but I’m not sure. is there any way to restore or open it?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TSuAliRtUyk-OLeJgpa2SlafynHLyz6U/view?usp=sharing
Actually the file is more than 50% filled with zeroes.
Where have you been saving the file while working on it? Are you using a cr acked version of SketchUp?