topic Re: AC crashed but didn't start from backup in Project data & BIM

AC crashed but didn't start from backup

heathldesign — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 00:24:54 GMT

AC crashed and went through the usual bug report etc. then it asked if i wanted to reopen which i clicked, but nothing happened. so now, where do i find the backup file? i had progressed quite far when it crashed and my last save was not as recent as i would like. the bpn isn't as recent as the pln.

Re: AC crashed but didn't start from backup

Barry Kelly — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 01:09:25 GMT

Ideally you should shut all running Archicads.

Start a new instance and the autosave file should be in the start up list.

Open that and Archicad should open the file - unless it is corrupted for some reason.

If that does not work then you can try to open the autosave file yourself, but guarantee it will work

I am not familiar with Macs, but on a Windows machine the auto save files are in the user folder ... C:\Users\username\Graphisoft

There you should see "autosave" folders.

In there you should see other folders.

You may have to hunt around a bit for a file called "database.fdb".

It should have a current date and be a fairly large file size.

Copy this somewhere else and rename it to ... yourfilename.PLN

Now try opening that file.

No guarantee it will work - that is why you copy the file.

Barry.

Re: AC crashed but didn't start from backup

heathldesign — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:42:10 GMT

thanks Barry,

once i quit all instances it did show up at startup. once again, you da man.