Please help, corrupt svg file

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rekjl
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Please help, corrupt svg file

Postby rekjl » Mon Dec 21, 2015 5:46 pm

Hi everyone,

I was using inkscape when suddenly my computer started to get sluggish. I quickly tried to save my work, than the computer froze. I restarted it and now I can't open my file. I opened it with Notepad, and it was missing about 15% of the bottom chunk of codes. Is it possible to still save my files inside?

I've uploaded the file to dropbox.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/84mymkf3anll2nv/KuchingGrumpyCat2.svg?dl=0

I have an earlier version of the file, but it is missing the main graphical elements that I need, if it might prove useful, please let me know and I will put the download link here.

These are just some graphics I've done for an android game I wanted to release this week, now I am not sure if I will make that dateline. Would greatly appreciate any help.

Lazur
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Re: Please help, corrupt svg file

Postby Lazur » Mon Dec 21, 2015 6:51 pm

Hi rekjl,

sad news. Only a rectangle is not corrupted from the file after ending the defs section in line 2356.

Notes for the future: run clean up document in the file menu to remove unused defs -common reason for crashing-
and
move raster images to a layer at the bottom -so when the file gets damaged you have better luck preserving the vectors.
If embedding raster images is necessary at all, because you can link them instead.

rekjl
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Joined: Mon Dec 21, 2015 5:22 pm

Re: Please help, corrupt svg file

Postby rekjl » Mon Dec 21, 2015 7:07 pm

Ouch...Thanks for helping Lazur URH, I really appreciate it. Sigh...I guess I have to redo the whole thing again, I guess I won't be able to make the dateline. And thanks for the tips, will do that in the future.


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