I have been working on a file- saved and closed and opened it many times before. Now when I open it, it is completely blank! There is so many days worth of work on it. Any tips? I'm using Inkscape .91. I can't attach the file here because it is too large.

After scaring myself to death, I remember that last night I had saved the file to a flash drive so I could work on it on another computer. So even though I lost today's work, I didn't lose everything! Today's file still opens blank, which is scary because I don't know what's causing it or when/if it will happen again.

In 0.91, there was an issue that when you closed Inkscape during saving, it didn't save the whole file (and a couple others like that).

So:
1. Switch to 0.92.2 (current version) to not have that issue.
2. Activate Autosave in the Preferences.
3. Save often

If you want us to take a look at the file, to see if there's something in it that can be salvaged, please share it.

If the file is too large to attach, even though it's blank, there's a chance the image is still "in there" somewhere. It could be as simple as - you hid the layer or all the layers? I know that happened to me once. A very complex image I had been working on for days or weeks, off and on. I opened one day and it was blank. Yikes! But then I remembered that the last time I was working on it, I was hiding and unhiding layers. And I simply had left them all hidden when I saved and closed the file.

Or it could be more complicated than that.

I totally overlooked the 'it's too large'. Yes, please upload to https://framadrop.org or any other file hosting service (e.g. dropbox, google drive,...) and share the link.

People with blank svg saves. You are not crazy. I have them also.
I can not save anything, even simple text as svg and open it containing and data.
The file saves but shows nothing.

Syngensmyth wrote:People with blank svg saves. You are not crazy. I have them also.
I can not save anything, even simple text as svg and open it containing and data.
The file saves but shows nothing.
drawing.svg

Your file is containing a text converted to a path only, which was positioned off of the page area, thus not showing up if viewed with a browser.
Remember your document is set up with the viewbox around your page borders. Only objects within are rendered.