Lost all of my components in a design

[burnandreturn]

I had a design I was working on and tried the Fusion way of designing in the assembly.   What a mistake!  I wanted to animate the assembly so I went to the animation tab.   It crashed Fusion.  At the bottom right it said the file was corrupt and then crashed.  I tried reoppening the file and it opens but I can't export any of the components or go to any of the other modules.

Now I have to start over.  This time I will start a new project folder and create the indiviual parts and sub-assemblies as individual files.  And build my assembly by importing the parts.

I had about 50 individual parts I now have to re-create.   Bad form on Fusions part!!!!

[keqingsong]

Sorry to hear that this happened to you. Have you tried promoting a previous version of the design see if it can open? 

[burnandreturn]

As far as I know I only have the one version unless you tell me I get an updated version everytime I save.  If so where do I find the earlier versions.

[keqingsong]

This was posted by @HughesTooling on another thread, but you can see your versions like this:

Click on the promote icon to bump that version up to the latest and see if you can open it. 

[burnandreturn]

Is there a tutorial about saving your work?   Or how do I make sure I have versions as in the picture you posted?

[burnandreturn]

I had 15 versions of the file.  None of them would open in animation.  They all said in the bottom right that the file is corrupt.

[innovatenate]

I note that you can also review the versions in the Item Details in the A360 browser.

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-...

Do you see any thumbnails next to any versions?

Could you forward the Diagnostic Log files to Nathan.Chandler@Autodesk.com so that we can investigate further?