TOTAL DISASTER: Rhino Blows Away My Evening's Work

[miano]

I saw something I had never seen before.

I had been editing a file this evening. I did a lot of work to it.

I did ZOOM EXTENTS and Rhino Crashed.

I restarted Rhino and got my file back. To see if this was recurring problem. I did ZOOM EXTENTS again. RHINO CRASHED.

I opened my file and nearly EVERTHING was gone. There was just one curve out of the original.

Revert listed a file from a week ago, the last time I had worked on it.

Immediately before the crash I had exported to PDF and the file looked like this:

Now it looks like this:

Third Deck Plating 2.3dm (191.7 KB)

Unless rhino hides a work in progress somewhere, this is a total disaster.

[3dsynergy]

Hi @miano

Argh sorry to hear about this, it happens at the worst of times and to all of us.

Not sure about mac but check your backup location, in windows it’s the recycle bin.
Check out the backup files in your files location backups have a .3dmBak extension.

When you crash, always work on that crashed file, if you get it to open, in a new version. If the file opens, first thing, do a save as and save a new version before doing anything to it.

I constantly save versions for this this reason, even though I have backup turned on and even then in the heat of battle one can forget to backup or save as until it’s too late.

RM

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Hi John -

@miano

Unless rhino hides a work in progress somewhere, this is a total disaster.

If you used the Save command during the modelling session, a previous version will be found in the Trash.

Apart from that, Rhino 8 uses the macOS Versioning system that should take care of creating all necessary backups while you work. Clearly, that failed in this case.
-wim

[miano]

At one point Rhino was giving a warning message saying not to save too frequentlly. Has it stopped that?

[Japhy]

Hi Miano,

What is your systemInfo?