<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Running on Windows?<br><br>My guess is that if you rename the "file.qgs~" to "file.qgs" & retry it might work...<br><br>Note that this will obviously overwrite your existing "file.qgs", but if this is a zero byte file, you aren't losing much.<br><br>If it is an ongoing project I suggest a regular backup of the whole project tree - otherwise what can go wrong eventually will...<br>again...<br><br>Cheers,<br><br> Brent Wood <br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Jake Maier <j.m@jmforestry.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, March 30, 2014 1:30 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Qgis-user] can't open file.qgs<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv0120569712"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv0120569712WordSection1"><div class="yiv0120569712MsoNormal">My computer crashed and now I cannot open a file anymore I was working with for the last 6 months </div><div class="yiv0120569712MsoNormal">The file.qgs has 0 bytes, but there is a file.qgs~ with 262Kb. <span style="font-family:Wingdings;">J</span></div><div class="yiv0120569712MsoNormal">Can I get the file back and how, or do I need to start fresh? <span style="font-family:Wingdings;">L</span></div><div class="yiv0120569712MsoNormal">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></div><div class="yiv0120569712MsoNormal">Jake</div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Qgis-user mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org"
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