Posted by wizardgmb on
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Help-with-file-recovery-tp5714610.html

I installed LibreCAD 2.1.3 on my Win10 Optiplex 780 this past weekend and spent the three days working on a power distribution and monitoring backboard drawing as part of a construction permit application. After 30+ hours work, I only needed some comments and a border/title block. I'd been saving the drawing regularly in addition to the autosave and before I shut the program down last night, I saved a backup copy, with a different name, to a thumb drive. This morning I restarted LibreCAD and opened the file saved moments before shutting down last night. I found a two day old version of the drawing with a since scrapped configuration and no detailing! When I opened the backup copy, I found a blank drawing. A search of the computer revealed an even older version and one with the name "#Power Distribution Wall II.dxf~" created less than two hours before I shut down last night. When I try to open the file with LibreCAD I get an error message stating "Cannot open the file" "Please check its existence and permissions". Given the extra # and ~ characters and size, 3x the size of a .dxf file, I assume this is a working file. Is there a way to open this file and hopefully recover most of my work?

I've posted a copy of the file to my Google Drive:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0h6WmugnPLldkdrVU1yRWJXeG8

Regards,
George