Can't open a previously saved scene

Veronica Maggio

This have happened a few times recently (last few months, could be after upgrade to 4.12 beta):

I work with a certain scene (environment, characters, props etc), I change poses, camera angle or whatever and save each change to a new file like Scene XYZ - 01,  Scene XYZ - 02 etc. Everything is working fine but when I want to reopen (i e batch rendering) it cannot open for example Scene XYZ - 24 and onwards. It gets stuck! This is the last entry to the log file:  

 

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2019-12-27 14:50:11.193 Loaded Morph Deltas in 0 min 0.0 sec.
2019-12-27 14:50:11.193 Loaded file: Edge Thicker.dsf
2019-12-27 14:50:11.799 Loaded image BookCover_diff B.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:12.068 Loaded image BookCover G.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:12.325 Loaded image BookCover F.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:12.561 Loaded image BookCover E.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:12.644 Loaded image Pages 1024x1024.JPG
2019-12-27 14:50:12.671 Loaded image BookCover2_diff 1024x1024.JPG
2019-12-27 14:50:12.695 Loaded image BookCover_diff B 1024x1024.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:12.728 Loaded image BookCover2D 1024x1024.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:12.799 Loaded image BookCover E 2048x2048.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:12.826 Loaded image BookCover_diff 1024x1024.JPG
2019-12-27 14:50:12.941 Loaded image FGG Walls 4.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:13.097 Loaded image FGG Walls 3.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:13.148 Loaded image FGGH Chair_cushion_albedo2 1024x1024.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:13.169 Loaded image FGGH Chair_wood_albedo 1024x1024.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:13.273 Loaded image FGGH Lampshade_bulb_albedo 1024x1024.jpg
2019-12-27 14:50:13.305 Loaded image FGGH  Lamp Shade 974x1500.jpg
2019-12-27 14:52:01.962 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): peer performed orderly shutdown errno=0
2019-12-27 14:54:15.168 WARNING: ..\..\..\..\..\src\sdksource\cloud\dzcloudtasknotifier.cpp(178): peer performed orderly shutdown errno=0

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This particular scene is FG Gothic Hall with two G8F.

I'm pretty sure that the only difference between the last file I can open and the first I cannot open, is a camera movement, no added props, shaders or tother new stuff.

I can open the .DUF file with Notepad after converting it with 7-Zip, but ... it's a big file with tons of text that looks...fine to me.So it doesn't look like the file itself is physically corrupted.

Is there anything that can be done?

 

 

Richard Haseltine

So it just sits there not responding for ages?

Veronica Maggio

Richard Haseltine said:

So it just sits there not responding for ages?

 

Yes, it can go 10-12 hours and still being stuck.

nicstt

If those items are an alphabetical listing of what is in the scene, then remove the Lamp Shade, then the following item if the lampshade isn't the issue.

Work on a copy of the scene.

I had it happen on a subset, and never did locate the offending item; I had to recreate that subset, fortuneately not too time-consuming.

I hadn't opened it for over a year, and none of the Studio versions I had would open it, including the one it was probably created in. I have wondered if it was a disk error, or a corrupted save for some reason.