was making a map for a game (Running with Rifles) when inkscape crashed and made the file corrupted

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I removed the link coz it looks like it is some file infected by s2.symcb.com
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can any miracle workers recover this? past examples

No experience in recovering files so please help

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BTW mods please approve this one instead of my last post, I posted the wrong upload link last time

o ok then where should i upload the file then

For me there's nothing to recover. The file is definitely not a svg. This is some kind of binary.
Maybe it's a dump of inkscape crash. From some url in it, I think it could be some infected file so I removed your link.

If someone want to have a look at it, please send me a private message (or ask in the thread). I'll give you the link.

@Satirical: please don't edit the post to try to put back the link (or upload it anywhere else) or you'll be permanently banned.

I scanned the files with some antivirus. Finally there seems to be no virus. But there still nothing to be saved. I confirm this is a binary with some reference to crypto api and certificate by symantec. Nothing like a svg for me.

This file is really strange

xdg-mime query filetype foo.svg returns image/svg+xml (no reason for that) <= if this is true maybe someone could retrieve some content
file -i foo.svg returns application/octet-stream; charset=binary (ok)

I'll be glad if someone could have a look at it.

h**ps://harddrive.google.com/open?id=0Bw0_mb2HqMVpelk0bkxMSEdVcTQ

To get the real url you need to replace ** with tt and replace harddrive by drive.

Don't download if you don't know what you're doing

This is what the file has inside:



... that's no XML file at all... and it has no mime header whatsoever so whatever xdg-mime was saying, it was wrong.

Editing for the hundredth time Just in case you don't know, Inkscape can auto-save, but you have to have it enabled beforehand of course. Inkscape Preferences > Input/Output > Autosave

It looks like in ubuntu xdg-mime uses only the extension to check the mime-type (which is a really bad idea imho) that's why I get the image/svg+xml mimetype.

@Uktrunie: so we agree that there's nothing to be done with this file ?

it's a binary but it's not an archive (g)zip nor an image (I don't see any magic number)

Yeah, there's no format header so who knows what's in there. I've never seen Inkscape doing this to a file, but whatever happened you're out of luck.