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Answered: Zbrush corrupted fix?

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#1

So, long story short, I was working on a project, just saved it, then literally a minute after saving(with the file still open), the power goes out, and I come back to find that the file was corrupted, and thus will not open. Since I assume ZB is constantly feeding the file info while it is open, regardless of whether or not I saved it, it got corrupted somehow…

…my question is, is there any possible way to fix it? Usually, I would just say oh well, but I am keeping a bit of hope that there may have just been a coding error, and that having saved it right before the outage happened may have been my salvation… I don’t have any programming experience unfortunately, but any and all help is appreciated.

I am using ZB4 on a Windows 7 Ultimate PC, Athlon 64 x2, 6gb ddr2 800 mhz ram.
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#2

ZBrush 4 has a fail-safe mechanism that is meant to prevent this sort of thing from happening. If you’re overwriting a file and the save fails for some reason, the previous version will not be overwritten. If you’re saving a new file and the save fails, no file will be written (so you don’t think you have a good save only to discover it’s corrupt).

If your ZBrush 4 file is corrupt, please upload it to someplace like RapidShare or an FTP server and then submit a support ticket in which you include the download information. The development team will want to take a look at it to try and figure out what happened.

Thanks.