My S4L file isn't opening after it crashed

[davidJ]

Hi everyone, I came here to see if I could get some help on my project.

I'm having some issues with opening my S4L project.
After my project crashed while trying to run (not while running), I couldn't get S4L to open my file.

The error message is
ERROR: HDF5 error(s):
arguments to routine - inappropriate type: not a location
arguments to routine - bad value : invalid object ID

I think a part of my project (.h5?) got corrupted when S4L crashed.
So I looked it up and tried to fix it with HDF5 library and python using h5check and h5repack, but wasn't successful since I couldn't find the .h5 part of the project.

Is there a way to recover my project?

Thanks in advance

David.

[bryn]

Sim4Life makes temporary "backup" files in the same directory as the project file. Sometimes you can open one of those to get a state before the corruption occurred.

Be sure to make sure you have enough disk space: in many cases, insufficient disk space is the root cause of file corruption.

[davidJ]

@bryn Thank you Bryn.
Managed to find a version that wasn't corrupted!
Hope you have a nice day