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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks Stefan, Brent and Alex.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Renaming worked perfectly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>File back in good working order. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I should have known. I guess it was past my bedtime </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jake<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stefan Sylla<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 30, 2014 12:34 AM<br><b>To:</b> qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] can't open file.qgs<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi Jake,<br><br>from what I understand the file.qgs~ is a backup of your original file.qgs. I think you can still rescue your project by using the file.qgs~ Just rename it to your original file.qgs<br><br>Hope that works out.<br><br>Stefan<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 30/03/2557 08:04, Jake Maier [via OSGeo.org] wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 12.0pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>My computer crashed and now I cannot open a file anymore I was working with for the last 6 months <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The file.qgs has 0 bytes, but there is a file.qgs~ with 262Kb. <span style='font-family:Wingdings'>J</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Can I get the file back and how, or do I need to start fresh? <span style='font-family:Wingdings'>L</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks for any help. I switched back from a weekly to Valmiera because I need a stabile environment. Now is that ironic or what? <span style='font-family:Wingdings'>J</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Jake<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________ <br>Qgis-user mailing list <br><a href="/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5132071&i=0" target="_top">[hidden email]</a> <br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_top">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a> <o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=1 width="100%" noshade style='color:#CCCCCC' align=center></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#444444'>If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#444444'><a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/can-t-open-file-qgs-tp5132071.html" target="_top">http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/can-t-open-file-qgs-tp5132071.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:4.8pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666'>To unsubscribe from Quantum GIS - User, <a href="" target="_top">click here</a>.<br><a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml" target="_top"><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>NAML</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal><hr size=2 width=300 style='width:225.0pt' align=left></div><p class=MsoNormal>View this message in context: <a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/can-t-open-file-qgs-tp5132071p5132074.html">Re: can't open file.qgs</a><br>Sent from the <a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Quantum-GIS-User-f4125267.html">Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive</a> at Nabble.com.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>