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Oh wow. This is sounding like a real bad issue And yes, I am not a fan of the multiple files all over creation aspect of trying to get around it happening again. Luckily, it hasn't happened again, but now the fear is always there. Are you also on a Mac, by the way? I was when it happened. I've recently changed to a new PC, but I'm curious if it might be only happening on the Mac end. You never know...

 

Anyway, also notify Andrew of this at the    support  @ 3d-coat.com    address.

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Update on this issue:

 

The data recovery software I tried actually worked! It was able to find all but the saves from the final hour I worke don it, so I will have to redo a couple of layers, but it's absolutely fantastic. The software was a bit pricier than I'd like, it's $99 -- the same as the license I bought for 3d Coat! So, I contacted them asking for a refund, or possibly a decrease in the price. I will pay for it fully, though, when I get the money. I'm just not able to right now. Hopeful to get a job after learning modeling a bit better

 

Anyway, a miracle. Thank God. I know I could redo the model, but this just eases my mind and still saves me time.

 

Thanks for the help. I know this wasn't something anyone could plan for.

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Thanks, Andrew and AbnRanger,

As I mentioned to Andrew in the email, the location was on an external drive, no permission limitations. No temp files, .3b, or .temp.3b anywhere, unfortunately.

Hm, I guess I know now not to save to any one file for any extended period, and will probably be paranoid now saving to alternating files every time I save, along without he auto save option on. I usually do create new files for new major changes in different applications, just in case I ever want to go back to a previous state I liked, but never dreaming a program could just make a file disappear. Corruption is one thing, but this totally is gone, like it never was. The jpg of it 3D Coat saves along with the file remains, though -- as useless as that is to me.

I'm trying a data recovery program, just hoping it can find and reconstruct the file off of the drive. Not too hopeful after all of this, though.

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I can do that, but I was saving frequently. I saved right before adding the new voxel layer and trying to bring in the new primitive. Once it didn't work, I quit, thinking I saved anyway, so no harm done.

 

That's the thing that really added salt in the wound. I've screwed myself over too many times in other programs by not saving. Here, it didn't matter

 

Sigh, here's hoping. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

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Thanks. I've sent the message along to him.

 

 

I came across the temp.txt file, which is dated one minute before my last save. It starts off with "voxel tree branch" and then I assume code for the enture mesh and layers, maybe?

 

I wonder if there's a way to restore it using that. I've saved that elsewhere under a new name, just in case.

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God, I can't even begin to comprehend this.

 

 

I've been working on a voxel model all night, multiple nights. I never moved its save file, or did anything to it. I've been saving to that file since naming it a day, or so, ago. Yet, 3D Coat (version 4 beta 15A) locked up after I added an object, then tried to undo it -- it happens now and then, but no big deal -- and so I exited. I just saved before trying to add the object, so I had no reason to believe anything would be messed up.

 

 

Loading 3D Coat again, I clicked to open recent file, not realizing it listed a previous named version of the file. It opened, and I saw it was the old file, so I tried to open the right one. However, that file is GONE, just not there anymore! The jpg of it remains only.

 

 

Tell me this is just a dream, or there's a magic fix fro this, please. I've looked in every folder with 3D Coat -- I never save anywhere but on my hard drive, but even so I've looked in the user data folder, temp, all over... Nothing. I see data files and xml files that were saved right around the last time I saved my project. Can anything of that be used, somehow, to rebuild my poor lost model?

 

This is the worst! Please help! Someone