[Qgis-user] can't open file.qgs

[Alex Mandel]

On 03/29/2014 05:30 PM, Jake Maier wrote:
> My computer crashed and now I cannot open a file anymore I was working with
> for the last 6 months 
> 
> The file.qgs has 0 bytes, but there is a file.qgs~ with 262Kb.  J
> 
> Can I get the file back and how, or do I need to start fresh?  L
> 
> Thanks for any help. I switched back from a weekly to Valmiera because I
> need a stabile environment. Now is that ironic or what?   J
> 
> Jake
> 
> 

Did you try to copy file.qgs to a new file and then open it?

As for other means of recovery that may depend on what kind of file
system your using NTFS, EXT3, etc and is way outside the QGIS scope.

Thanks,
Alex

PS: No backups?