File too big and it won't open

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Hey All,

I just had a file crash after accidentally converting a very complicated mesh to a surface using MeshToNURBS. The file saved this change before crashing and now its way too big to open (4gb).

Is there any way of accessing the older saved version of the file without needing to open the current massive one? I’m on a Mac BTW

Brendan

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Hi Brendan -

I’m afraid that, on macOS, you need to be able to open the current file to get to its previous versions.
-wim

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Hi Brendan,
It should be possible to open the file, I regularly work with big files between 3 and 5GB in Rhino 7 Mac but sometimes it takes quite some time before you see " response". Similar when working and background save starts then with these file sizes the rest of rhino Freezes for a moment.