Looking for file recovery wisdom

[Anonymous]

I have attempted to open a file that I was working on a few months ago.
The file starts to open, not really enough time to read any thing on the screen, and then I get kicked out of the program and the bug reporter appears. Same thing happens with the back up plan. I tried starting a new file, deleting out all layers and other attributes, and importing the bad file, as soon as the import starts, I get kicked out of archicad. This file had some pretty large site meshes, I think I made them with architerra. Can anyone suggest anything? I sent the file to my vendor, no luck. I just sent the file to tech support, they will be looking at it today.
I also tried opening it up on my dell Precision 6300 laptop, same problem.
Thanks for any wisdom,
I am usually careful about backing up my files, but in this case the backup was about two days of work old.
I am wondering if there is a program I can buy that could scan/audit the file for problems.

Jack K Rogers AIA

archicad 11 1114 USA full
Windows XP pro
Dual opteron 270's
4 meg ram
nvidia Quadro FX 3400/4400

[Thomas Holm]

Do a search in this forum for "forward merge"

[Link]

Thomas wrote:
Do a search in this forum for "forward merge"

I'm surprised you didn't respond with 'Artlantis'!

Anyway, he can hardly do a forward merge if he can't open the project. File sounds corrupt to me and IME only GSHQ can determine what's wrong with it.

A telling sign may be how big the file is, but I suspect that GSHQ will reply with an answer soon enough. In the meantime you may want to think take another look at that backup...

Cheers,
Link.

[Thomas Holm]

Link wrote:
I'm surprised you didn't respond with 'Artlantis'!

You're biting my heels all the time, Link! But I guess that's intended to keep me on my toes.

Of course you're right. I'm tired. But maybe he could open a new file and then try to merge the faulty one into that?

[Link]

Thomas wrote:
But maybe he could open a new file and then try to merge the faulty one into that?

He has already! You must be tired.

I just like to see accurate advice given - especially coming from someone in the top ten list.

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

I certainly do appreciate the help of you people in the archicad community. Geographically I'm out in the sticks with no one to turn to around here, but I guess that's true of most archicad users. But with this forum I fell like I have the worl wide community of archicad users right next door. I just tried another archicad user's suggestion of removing all add ons, I tried both opening the file and the forward merge, no luck.

My thanks again to the archicad community of the world.

[Anonymous]

Now if I could just learn how to type

[Rod Jurich]

jackrog1 wrote:
Now if I could just learn how to type

You can always edit your own post