help please with DXF file.

[sivuyilekana]

AutoCad 2013 crashed while i was working on DXF. Now the backup wont open, it says invalid or incomplete file.

[gotphish001]

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/AutoCA...

Your question is pretty vague, so all I an say is try the things in the article and the articles it points too.

[Kevin.Palmer · Accepted solution]

Hi @sivuyilekana,

Welcome to the Autodesk Community, and thank you for posting your question here in the AutoCAD Architecture forum!

As @gotphish001 suggested, I would start by running the recover command like you would for a corrupted drawing file. If that doesn't work, you can try changing the file type from .bak to a dxf or dwg by doing the following:

1. Locate the corrupted drawing directory or storage location.
2. Find the .dwg file back up denoted by the .bak extension
3. Rename the .bak extension to .dwg 
4. Attempt to open the newly created file.

Let me know if that works for you!

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