Repairing corrupt files

I know of none other than restoring last night's backup. If you submit it to your VAR, they may be able to send it to SW for analysis as a bug. In the past, this has resulted in the corrected file being returned to me several weeks after submission.

I recommend an aggressive backup regimen. Even something as simple as a batch file to make copies of project folders every night might be helpful. The backup files created by SW can be useful, but sometimes the corruption isn't noticed until all the SW automated backups are affected. I don't do this myself, because I only rarely see corrupted files.

something I've found help is to use EcoSqueeze to remove all the display list crud and preview image from the file. Works up to 2004 (been off using Inventor* for the last few months - bleeurgh - so can't advise as to 2k5 suitability)

Chris

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SW can fix these things. But it may take some time unless your VAR submits it with a real sense of urgency. Also, this is one case where running a defrag program doesn't help because it removes the information from the file that they use to fix it.