Unexpected File Format!

This message is popping up more frequently and has become a serious
problem. Part and assembly files cannot be opened. Work has been lost.
It was thought that files were being corrupted over the network and so
myself and colleagues began working on files locally. This didn't solve
the problem. Best guess is that the corruption occurs after after a
solidworks crash but not necessarily immediately afterwards. Has anyone
else had this problem? What causes it? Can corrupted files be recovered?
How can I avoid it?

I really need help on this one. Recognition that this problem exists
would at least help ease the pain!

Simon

 

Hi Simon,

We don't have the problem here (2005 SP3). Because you also have it on your
local computers, it isn't a netware problem. Did you check your computers
with a decent virus scanner?

\/\/im

 

You have been working on a network? Any chance someone moved one of the
files while it was open somewhere else?

In TOOLS/OPTIONS/EXTERNAL REFERENCES is Search References checked? and
are there pathes listed in FILENAMES/REFERENCES?

 

What SP are you running? I thought that bug was fixed in SP3.

Richard

 

As far as I can judge it is Ok. AVG on the network. Each PC gets
checked daily. No problems recently.

Simon

 

I still see it here, I'm running SP3 (over a network). I never got
this error in SWX 2004.

Eric

 

I have seen this with WinXP and Office 97&2000 without the updated service
packs.

 

Try different sp