Save File broken - How to fix?

[SirBlubbalot]

Hi,

I have been working on my first part for a few days now, and it appears that the save file was somehow corrupted.
I exported the part as .stl and saved as .FCStd. The .stl was fine and is displaying correctly, the .FCStd however is nothing like it was when I saved it.
All that is left are some (all?) basic shapes, most of which refuse to display when marked as visible.

OS: Windows 10
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.16131 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-18
Hash: 3129ae4296e40ed20e7b3d460b86e6969acbe1c3
Python version: 3.6.6
Qt version: 5.6.2
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: German/Germany (de_DE)

So yeah, any hope of fixing this? Also would be interesting to know how to avoid this in the future.

Attached: Current broken .FCStd (v1.0 final) , last working .FCStd (v0.4 - a few revisions ago, maybe helps) , and current .stl

[chrisb]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

Attached: Current .FCStd, last working .FCStd

It is helpful if you tell us which one is which.

[chrisb]

working: AÜ Gehäuse v0.4.FCStd
broken: AÜ Gehäuse v1.0 Final.FCStd
Reading the file yields an error in report view: "Fatal Error at file /private/tmp/AÜ Gehäuse v1.0 Final.FCStd, line 1842, char 27
Invalid Document.xml: whitespace expected"

later recompute show lots of errors "Not enough shape objects linked".

Are you sure that you have enough disk space available?

[SirBlubbalot]

It is helpful if you tell us which one is which.

Sorry, thought that was obvious, edited

working: AÜ Gehäuse v0.4.FCStd
broken: AÜ Gehäuse v1.0 Final.FCStd
Reading the file yields an error in report view: "Fatal Error at file /private/tmp/AÜ Gehäuse v1.0 Final.FCStd, line 1842, char 27
Invalid Document.xml: whitespace expected"

later recompute show lots of errors "Not enough shape objects linked".

Are you sure that you have enough disk space available?

The file lives on a Dropbox, both my Computer and the Dropbox have more than enough space

[chrisb]

The issue seems to come from object "Fusion", where something went out of whack. I looked in Document.xml inside of the FCStd file and found non closed quotes for a Link value:

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                <Property name="Shapes" type="App::PropertyLinkList">
                    <LinkList count="2">
                        <Link value="                    </Property>
                </Properties>

I have no idea how this could have happened, but the experts here may tell you more.

[SirBlubbalot]

Thanks very much, simply deleting that property seems to have fixed it.

[TheMarkster]

In cases like this if you have backups created, such as .FCStd1 files, be sure to *not* save the file again, but instead try renaming of the backup files and seeing if it can be opened.