Hello,

I have been working on a scheme and I saved it in SVG format. When I tried to open it today they told me that the file failed to load. I have read a similar topic here and they suggest to open it via notepad but when I try to open it, nothing happens.
here is the SVG file if someone can fix it would be good


And thank you in advance.

I have no clue what happened to your file - but if you think it´s a valid SVG you can try to open it with a text-editor. Unfortunately there´s nothing useable in there and no SVG-editor or browser I know of can open or display this file.


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Are you using an outdated version of Inkscape? An error like this happened on Windows on previous Inkscape versions. If your version is not 0.92 or higher, please uninstall Inkscape and install the latest version. Also make sure to activate Autosave in the settings. This will help prevent that you get into a similar situation again.

The version is 0.92, did someone tried to open my file on a text editor because I can't can at least someone try to do it maybe I ma doing it wrong here is the file :
http://www.mediafire.com/file/u6bc5rbth ... scheme.svg

And thank you in advance

twimotimo wrote:The version is 0.92, did someone tried to open my file on a text editor because I can't can at least someone try to do it maybe I ma doing it wrong here is the file :
http://www.mediafire.com/file/u6bc5rbth ... scheme.svg

And thank you in advance

The file has nothing but NUL characters in it, all 60K of it. Something went wrong. I afraid you have to restore from backup.

Now and think I have to reproduce again the scheme unfortunately

I suspect "scheme" is a miss or near-miss translation. What were you drawing in the file? I would not expect it with such a small file, but were you having any slowdowns or crashes?

Definitely set up auto save this time

How to set up auto save ?

Inkscape Preferences > Input/Output > Autosave

Do you remember what lead to the data loss? Did Inkscape crash during saving?

No it didn't crash this is the first time that happened to me

If it happens again, please make a bug report. This is not supposed to be happening, and it's a rather nasty issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape

Scheme = Plan. From Latin, schema. i.e. Control Plan (or schematic).

If the connector tool was in use, there may still be some lingering bugs...

Auto-save is a must.