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Welp, I've given up trying to salvage all the hours I spent on this project. Thanks a HEAP, Affinity. 🤬 😡 So now, what I'll have to do is start all over again, taking the following precautions: after each step of the creation process on this project, save both a TIFF file and an Affinity file in both my PC's drive and then copy it over to my external hard drive. After each step. Since Affinity can't tell me why this happened, or how to prevent it from happening in the future (again, thanks a HEAP, Affinity. 🤬), it seems like this is what I'll have to do. Other software programs have figured out how to autosave, create autosave backups, and enable file recovery, but not Affinity.

Thanks PaulEC, that does indeed seem like a lot of work, with no apparent guarantee it would happen again. Although I despise Adobe and their subscription model, I never had this issue with Photoshop. Saving was easy-peasy. I have no answers on what exactly caused this, so I can avoid it happening in the future, and it doesn't appear that the techs at Affinity know what's causing it either, which doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. 😒😖 It looks like what I'll have to do is save a version of each step of my project at every single stage of development: Complete one section, save as a TIFF file. Work on the next section, save as a TIFF file, and so on. That way, if this happens again I can go back to the most recently completed version. I just wish Affinity would get it together and find a fix for this. I'm not the only person this is happening to, apparently. 🤬 Just a shot in the dark, but do you know of any way to retrieve the work from a truncated file? As I said, SOMEthing is taking up 84.8MB of space in this file. There is data there.

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro, version 21H2, OS build 19044.1766 Affinity Photo Version: 1.10.5.1342 Drive: WD 4TB My Passport Portable External Hard Drive HDD, USB 3.0, USB 2.0 Compatible, 256-bit AES hardware encryption Other information: Corrupted file is 84.9 MB, in .afphoto format, with no previous versions SOMEthing is taking up 84.8MB of space in this file. There is data there. How can I extract it? I have spent huge amounts of time on this project; the prospect of having to start all over is very disheartening. I really love this program as a replacement for Photoshop (I loathe Adobe). If I cannot recover this file, how do I prevent this from happening again? I see on the forums this error message has happened to numerous people. What's being done about it? What steps can I take to protect my projects from being destroyed? Can you advise? EDIT: Here is a Dropbox link to the file. Can you see if you can access it? https://www.dropbox.com/s/ul14x0m3d0q6wal/TonyMikey__ASSEMBLED.afphoto?dl=0

I love Affinity Photo...until I could not open a file I have spent untold HOURS creating, saving to a reliable external hard drive. When I try to open it, I get the following message: "The file appears to be truncated (shorter than expected)". The file in its current state is 84.9 mb, so there is data there, but Affinity cannot open it. I tried attaching but got the message Sorry, an unknown server error occurred when uploading this file. (Error code: -200) Is there any way to recover this...?? TonyMikey__ASSEMBLED.afphoto TonyMikey__ASSEMBLED.afphoto