andrewmapley Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Ive been working on an interior scene and its worked fine for the last few weeks. I closed max down last night and when I tried to load the file this morning it crashed saying it has an application error. I tried opening the autobacks but they do the same thing. I tried uninstalling then reinstalling max but that didn’t work. I updated the service packs but that didn’t work. I then remembered I had an old back up file of my own from last week which worked initially but when I closed that down again and tried to reopen it it says file open failed. It lets me open other files but not this project. The last few things I did in the scene were add a vraydisplacement modifier for a rug and some external materials from vray-materials.de Im not very technically minded when it comes to software so I may have missed something but this project was quite alot of work for me and was going to be a key part of my portfolio so any help would be much appreciated. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil poppleton Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Try merging items into a new file, a few at a time. Maybe leave the rug out.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewmapley Posted November 22, 2012 Author Share Posted November 22, 2012 If I could send a hug across the internet I would. Thank you!! The rug loads fine. I was having trouble with a cloth modifier on a curtain and i think that was it. Going to leave it out and try again. Learnt my lesson now. Going to be saving my own backups from now on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salvador Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Try incremental saves. Specially before adding a heavy element / material / modifier. Most likely you got into a memory overload when Max tried to open/load the file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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