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.CDL Recovery
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I have been working on a job for a few hours today and all of a sudden Signlab crashed. I had been saving as I go as per norm, but now I’m getting a ‘error reading file’ message when I try to open and can t see the preveiw.
I can see the file in the .BAK file and have tried renaming it to .CDL to recover it, but it ain’t workin. Any advice/help would be appreciated.Cheers
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9 Replies
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sometimes (I stress ‘sometimes’) you can get at it by opening an empty page in Signlab and then ‘importing’ the file instead of trying to open it…if this works then simply re-save using the filename of your choice…
more soon
mikethesign
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One of our customers had the same problem yesterday, you’re right you should be able to just rename it. He couldn’t for some reason so emailed it to me. I just copied it to my desktop, renamed it while it was there & it opened fine.
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Mike and Brian
Thanks for the quick response, tried both with no joy.
Brian, fancy givin the file a shot on your side?Cheers
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email it to my home address, i’ll have a go….
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Lamby,
If you are using e6 get used to it it happens and I have yet to find away to recover it. Signlab don’t want to know and it can also shut down or freeze the computer every time you try to load the file.
Good luck
Allan
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Incidently I was one of the first people to use e6 as they asked me (the Canadians) to Beta test it pre release and there were bundles of problems at first. Later versions are much better but eve with this crashing problem I still think it is a good bit of kit but I must admit somethimes (today even) I am inches away from putting my fist through the screen with frustration when it crashes.
Allan
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Brian
You have email mate, thanks for the offer. I didn’t get chance to email you last night before I went home, so I can send to the office if you have time.
I could probably re-do the file but would like to know if its possible to recover.Alan
Don’t use E6, still quite content with SL 5.6. only remember this happening once before in 6 years.Cheers
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Brian
Thanks for your help, it has worked. Very strange that I could not do the same. Tried again since and still did not work.
Cheers
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Right I think I have the answer, thanks to Ray @ Cadlink.
If you go to my computer, choose tools then folder options, then click the view tab, there should be an option to hide extensions for known file types. Make sure this box is checked & things should work!
What was probably happening is that you were renaming the file something like job.cdl.bak because the cdl file extension was not showing.
(This is assuming you have Windows XP, it may be slightly different in Windows 98 etc)
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