Possible to recover a map?

kreegan

Hey all,

I have an issue with a map that I've put about 3-4 hours worth of work into and would like to not lose. I have CC3+ with CD3 and all the additional resources from Dundjinni, CSUAC, and Bogie, plus Annual 9. I was working on my map last night when Windows Explorer crashed. I restarted it, which seemed to put CC3+ into a weird state where a command prompt popped up several times before the map finally rendered again. I clicked one of the symbol set icons and all the toolbars scrunched against the left side of the screen. So I restarted the app. It asked if I wanted to save before I closed, so I selected yes. After restarting my map is just an orange field and the backgrounds for the symbols on the left is orange too. I attached a screenshot. I'll put my map in a followup comment.

Any ideas what happened and if I can recover my map? Thanks!

Rich

kreegan

Here's my map.

kathorus

You might try to open the Autosave drawing, it might possibly still be the one cached. File->Open Autosave Drawing

kathorus

As for the file you posted, it looks like all the sheets have been deleted, which would delete all symbols as well. I don't think there's a way to recover that, someone else might know. My workflow includes periodically saving between two files and closing/opening the application.

kreegan

Unfortunately, it had autosaved another map I was working on just prior. :-(

Monsen

I don't know what happened here, but I can say one thing for certain, that file IS NOT your map, it is the Structures symbol catalog file from the default CC3 Overland style.

Now, how your map came to be overwritten by the symbol catalog file, I cannot say, but nothing can be recovered from that file, this isn't a corrupted map, it is a plain copy of the actual symbol catalog file. The only way to recover from this is from a backup (or autosave, but you already confirmed that option was out)

kreegan

Thanks for the help, folks.

JimP

This is why I do this: filename01_001, do some work, save as filename01_002, continue. That way if I screw up a map, I can go back and get an earleir one.

And this can go back substantionaly further back than Undo can go.

Autumn Getty

I lost one a while ago. It hurts. Especially when its one you were really happy with.