File Recovery

[Anonymous]

After spending a full day creating fabrication drawings for a project, I'm understandably reluctant to redo the entire collection as IV2014 has corrupted the docfile.  How do I find this file and how do I fix it?  I'm currently in a position where I can open my drawing file without issues but any attempt to save or export the data results in the same 'docfile corrupted' message.  I note that very there are very few posts regarding this issue, but the posts indicate that AD aren't too interested in helping...

[Paul-Mason]

IF in the options settings of your project management have the "Old Version Keep On Save" set to 1 then in the directory, on my sytem for example this is "C:\Users\Paul Mason\Documents\Inventor 2013\Mason's Inventor Files\MacGibbons\Bildge Distribution Box\OldVersions" then you should have a copy of the file prior to the one that was corrupted.

You'll need to close the current file then from the menu select "File open" navigate to you "OldVersion" folder open the  file that is in ther and select open as current version, I think it says in the prompt, this will replace the corrupted version, that is IF that file is OK, then just to make sure you have a good copy save file that you have just opened in the original corrupted files location.

You may have to redo some work on it but no where near what it would be like in creating it from scratch

Hope this helps

[Cadmanto]

Any chance you work off of a network and yout IT department keeps backups of these files?

Or I suppose you are not working with Vault.

If nothing else this should be a lesson to get a system in place that protects these files and backs them up.

If this solved your issue please mark this posting "Accept as Solution".

Or if you like something that was said and it was helpful, Kudos are appreciated. Thanks!!!! 

     

[Anonymous]

I ended up going through and copy-pasting each page to a new file.  Turned out 4 pages were corrupted, but still far better than redoing 27!