openning a file corrupted!

[atp-design]

Hi ,there is a problem with last save of file... please help.

i changed the render engine to mental ray and save it.now every time i want to open it an error message appeare that file can not Open !...

 

please help me , how can recover my file and fix it... merge objects did not correct the problem ...

[Brian Smith]

Did you go to the recovery directory and get the file's backup...assuming you allow backups?

[DavidR]

Max is pretty flaky this way. There's no way I've found to recover a corrupt file, but you can try merging the corrupt scene into a new, empty scene. If that doesn't work, try merging 1 thing at a time, or groups of things, to recover what you can. Save after each successful merge. To avoid future heartache, go to preferences, and turn on incremental save. Personally, I don't like autosave because I work with big scenes on a network, so the autosave kicks in breaking my flow for a long time. I ctrl-s every few minutes, so I always have a bunch of incrementally-numbered files. I delete all but the last 2, just to be safe. I started doing this ~5 years ago after an unrecoverable file cost me a week's work, and I've never lost more than 15m work since then, so I know it works. In fact, at work, it's become absolutely mandatory to use incremental save -if someone were to lose a week's work because they turned it off, there would be serious consequences for them.

[notamondayfan]

yup, ditto as what david says.

 

always make itterations of files.

 

try opening the file on another machine, with mental ray preset as the default renderer.

[atp-design]

thank you david..

i am going to merge the objects step by step... it will work i wish