Damaged file

SW 2008 Sp3
XP Pro
4mb

During some final filleting on a finished part the hour glass came on for
a moment and SW closed.

Checked in the auto recovery folder and there was nothing.

Opening the part gives the following message (after the part shows on the
screen):

SolidWorks encountered an error opening the document.
Pleas contact your local Solidworks support representative for help in
troubleshooting this problem.

Anyone know what the support rep would suggest (mine isn't available until
Monday)? Any other tricks?

Tried saving as a Parasolid but SW quickly shuts down.

Gary

 

You might try making a backup copy (using the OS) to another
disk & then checking that first disk for errors.
If you find any then consider trying the repair option?

 

When You say "auto recover folder", do You mean C:\Documents and
Settings\XX\Local Settings\TempSWBackupDirectory, which is the deafult
directory for backup. If not check for the file there.

// Krister

 

That's the one and it's empty.

Gary

 

Sorry to hear, might be a good idea to set it up then, >SW System
Options / Backup/Recover / Backup

// Krister

 

That's sage advice, but SW was *supposed* to be making backups and
auto-recover files. For some reason, this wasn't happening. I since
reloaded SW and now the functions are working. Guess I should check this
daily. Having dealt with SW and it's tricks since '95, nothing surprises me.

Gary

 

Did you do a search on the first characters of the expected file name?
It might have been put someplace other than where you expected.

Environment variables.

 

Yes I know all about that.
The default setting is that the"Save auto-recover info every xx
minutes" and "Number of backup copies per document" are grayed out.
You have to fill it in to activate each one of them. I always do this,
but sometimes I've seen it go back to default too.
Can't really say what trigger this behaviour, but for sure You will
first notice when it's too late.

// Krister