Hello Community, while modeling in peace my computer got a power cut and shut down. After restarting the sketchup file shows me the error “This does not appear to be a Sketchup Model!”. Even so the file has full size and got saved minutes before crash I tried all known to be ways to recover the fil…

Unzip your file and make it accessible, no sign-in

As @RLGL indicated you need to make the SketchUp file accessible and don’t zip it. Where were you saving the file while working on it? What version of SketchUp? What operating system? Looks like it’s time to update your forum profile.

[image] RLGL: Unzip your file and make it accessible, no sign-inhttps://we.tl/t-L3lyoj5HMM Unique Download Link | WeTransfer this might work…

Unique Download Link | WeTransfer here is the file, unzipped,…

Nothing but zeroes in the file. Nothing to recover. [Screenshot - 3_11_2026 , 2_42_12 PM] How about answering my questions?

Compare the original file and the zip file you made. If the zip is much smaller than the original, it indicates that the file is badly damaged with parts replaced by zeros. SketchUp files are already compressed so zipping a healthy model file will not yield a significant amount of compression.

omg! i am working on sketchup 2023 on windows.

Okay, got it. Yes, exactly the original file has 226mb while the zip file has only 225kb. Thought already that there is something fishy.

[image] input_jj: i am working on sketchup 2023 on windows. Why still SketchUp 2023? Is it a cr acked version? You should update to the current version. There have been a lot of fixes in the last three years. You can then use Trimble Connect to store backup copies of your models so you have …

But I am not getting, why I also cannot open the recovery file which got saved one hour earlier. Unique Download Link | WeTransfer - the .skb file which is also not apenable.

This does not appear to be a Sketchup model! - AAAAHHHHH

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DaveR March 11, 2026, 7:42pm 6

Nothing but zeroes in the file. Nothing to recover.

How about answering my questions?

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This does not appear to be a Sketchup model! - AAAAHHHHH

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