PANIC ! SP crashed on save and when I reopen the file there is nothing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
polycounter lvl 3
I have been texturing this character for about a week... but the file still weihgt 2.3 gigs so I still have hope it can be open somehow but how ????
Also the lock file is still there eventhough substance isn't open anymore... the software version is the same if you wandered
Man tell me I haven't lost a week of my life...
I don't autosave I only save manually very frequently
Plz for the love of god help me recover this
EDIT : I found a pretty recent backup on another harddrive and I found that the hard drive on which i was trying to savethe file didn't had enough space so this is probably the reason. The original file was almost 4 gigs.
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so - you're kind of fucked with painter files when this happens, they're binaries so you can't fix them by hand
do yourself a favour and get some version control software
I like perforce but it can be awkward to set up and there are other options available
And how does a version control software would have helped me in this situation ? I red some description before asking, so to me it is mostly a tool for developpers and you need some programming knowledge to make use of it...
You don't need programming knowledge you just need to read instructions for ten minutes.
In the simplest case it's a way to back up your file and still be able to access every version of it that you backed up.
If you commit work every day you'll only ever lose one day's work.
It's a bit like iterative saves but much less confusing in the long run
Dropbox, Google Drive, etc are easier solutions for versioning.
Don't get me wrong, Perforce is awesome, but way overkill for a single artist.
Just note that you shouldn't work directly on an asset in Google Drive, but rather copy your working file over to it periodically. We found Drive does some wonky live locking on a file that can cause hiccups if live editing a large binary scene file.
uploading a 4 gigs file takes about an entire days from where I live. I have a very bad connexion. So I just have two save files and I alternate between the 2 to not loose the previous one in case.