The blender file shows 0 bytes

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Hello everyone! I’m desperate to have lost a character file from blenender, basically, I was editing normally, when my linux desktop decides to crash, but it kept “working” even though it was stuck, because I could still play a video and move the cursor, but as he did nothing but said, I decided to save my “locked” blender file and turned off the computer right on the button, but after I turn on the computer, when trying to open the blender file, he says: file format is not supported for file, and the file shows 0 bytes, I tried to recover the last session, recover from recovery file (also 0 bytes) but unfortunately nothing worked, does anyone know any other way to recover this file or an old version of it? because I worked hard on it.

Thank you so much.

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there must be a *.blend1 file also available… and sometimes it is best to load the last Autosave File with the identical name

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there is a tmp file under app blender folder on win 10
but should also exist on linux i guess

there is a saved file every 2 minutes i think
so should be able to find one file

good luck

happy bl

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I searched my temp linux folder, unfortunately I couldn’t find it :frowning:
Thanks for your attention!

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I tried to open the autosave file (.blend1), but unfortunately displays the same error

Thanks for listening!

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in case your *.blend1 is not 0 bytes, have you tried appending from it?

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Linux temp folder is usually right at the base of the file system “/temp”
Blender autosaves my files there.

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yes, mine too, but for some reason there is only one file there, when i open it is just a simple cube

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I tried to open the file, but for some reason the two are in 0 bytes, which is strange, the backup should have the information from the original file
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I hate to write this… but you might be in trouble. As your *.blend1 is also empty, there is not much you can do here to get your work back…

unless you have a quit5932478.blend (some weird naming convention like that) which Blender sometimes creates

You should get in the habit of creating an evolution back up every now and then:

WorkFile.blend
WorkFileB.blend
WorkFileC.blend

…and so on, this way you don’t have to rely on one single project file with one back up

good luck!

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Hello,

You might also want to increase your “Save Versions” in “Save & Load” preferences. This will create .blend1, blend2, etc… files (when saving) which can end up eating a lot of disk space but can be a life saver if something went wrong and one didn’t catch it right away. Here I’ve set mine to 3. Also, as Nathan mentioned it’s a good idea to create “snapshot” type of backups (especially on important projects). Perhaps, an addon like Easy-Backup [$] might be useful, see: https://blendermarket.com/products/easy-backup

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Cheers and stay safe!