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Corrupted Save - Lost All My Work - Reward Offered for Fixing!

skelegraphskelegraph Posts: 31
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I am offering $100 via PayPal to anyone who can help me recover my corrupted file.

The situation: so I spent many many hours workng on a project in Windows 10. I was so happy with the way it was coming out. I saved my work regularly. Then I restarted Daz and when I tried to reopen my DUF, I got an error that said "An error occurred while reading your file, see the log for more details." I opened the log and it said "Unexpected end of file in object." All my other projects open normally. I tried making a copy of the file and opening it from another directory, but got the same error.

I am devastated because I spent so much work on this file. 

Are there any leet people on this forum who could help me recover it - or at least recover some data points (for example, dome orientation, pose settings for my character) so that I could plug them into an older version of the file I have?

 

Comments

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,699

    This probably means a bad compression, so you need to look at tools for rescuing zip and other archive files. Be wary as there are a lot of dubious offerings out there.

  • TheKDTheKD Posts: 2,700

    Ouch, been there. It takes up more space, but saving a new save every save instead of using one master save helps a lot, at least you won't have to start at square one.

  • jeremy-2558557jeremy-2558557 Posts: 17

    I'm having this exact same problem but on Mac. 

    Richard Haseltine said:

    This probably means a bad compression, so you need to look at tools for rescuing zip and other archive files. Be wary as there are a lot of dubious offerings out there.

    Do you mind expanding on that? Is there a step by step anywhere on the forums? I haven't found a solution. 

    Thank you

  • IceCrMnIceCrMn Posts: 2,147
    edited September 2019

    7-zip can decompress the file.

    Not sure it would save it or not, so best to attempt this on a copy of the original.

    https://www.7-zip.org

    download the 64-bit version and install it.

    Right click your save file copy and select "extract here". This will make file with the same name but with no file extension(.txt, .duf, or whatever) This file can be opened in notepad or notepad++ as a normal text file.

    "Save as" a copy with a new file name such as "My Rescued File.txt" and upload it here so someone with more experience than myself can look it over to see where the "end of file" may be and see if it can be rescued from there.

    PS. I hate zip format, I use 7zip for everything and have for the better part of the last 20 years.

     

    edit: You can also try saving it with a new name and adding the .duf extension to it such as "My Rescued File.duf" .If the text editor can open it, it just might work in studio. maybe.

    Post edited by IceCrMn on
  • skelegraphskelegraph Posts: 31

    @IceCrMn: wow, thank you SO SO MUCH. Your fix worked and I was able to open my file again! I am overjoyed. Thank you. I will PM you. Thanks!

  • IceCrMnIceCrMn Posts: 2,147

    You're welcome :)

    I'm happy to hear your file with all your work was rescued.

    You don't need to give me anything. That I was able to help is enough for me thank you for your kind offer.

  • skelegraphskelegraph Posts: 31

    You are so kind, IceCrMn. I am extremely grateful for your help! You really turned my weekend around. That save which I lost (but then recovered) was representative of the moment when I finally made the jump from "learniing" to "making art" and it means a lot to me that I have that file back. Thank you again!

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