Help - max2014 crashes when trying to open saved scene

Robbie222

Hey,

Last night I saved my scene, now when I open it it crashes. I have tried the autobackups , they crash also. Someone pls help me recover it.

http://speedy.sh/3722z/AutoBackup01.max

.Wiki

I tried it and can´t open it. Do you have plugins installed?

lovingsaskia

Have you tried merging the file into a new scene? Found it works sometimes by importing individual meshes until I find the bit that crashes max.

lovingsaskia

I can confirm it opens fine in my max 2015.

Robbie222

Xoliul shader , I think that's all. But there are no materials applied. I think the turbosmooth is causing the crash. It's a car mesh. When I attached the headlights to the car it crashed after I clicked off the mesh to see the turbosmooth result. I tried about 3-4 times and same result.
So I just left a part of the headlights flying.

I have tried merging the scene, and I get all the flying objects around it but the car mesh itself, which is replaced by a dummy.

How can I proceed to recover it?

.Wiki

I managed to open it by merging the scene into an empty scene and only importing one element. I got the car body open and can export it as obj, fbx or something else if it doesnt work on your computer. Just send me a PM if you need a file.

Edit: And just a quick tip, save in iterations. Don´t override your file all the time. Every day at work i save a new iteration in the morning before i start working. Then after i did some bigger changes i save a new iteration of the file. This way you don´t loose all your work by these software problems.

Robbie222

Thanks to .wiki the problem is solved.

I will do the same and save different iterations.