Affinity Publisher File suddenly corrupted? How to recover?

[Tom Kaszas]

1. Which Operating System are you using?  macOS Monterey v 12.6.1
2. Which version of Affinity did the file last get saved in? Publisher 1.10.6
3. What drive type was the file last saved to (select more than one if needed)?
   Local disk

 

Worked fine until this morning. Saved, powered down. On restart corrupted and unopenable.All That Remains of Them Volume 1.afpub

[Hangman]

Hi @Tom Kaszas and welcome to the forums...

The .afpub file you've uploaded is currently shown as 'Unavailable'... could you perhaps check it and re-upload the file so we can take a look...

[Tom Kaszas]

All That Remains of Them Volume 1.afpubHere is the file again.

606850847_AllThatRemainsofThemVolume1.afpub

[Hangman]

Hi Tom,

I'm afraid I've had no joy with your file but I'm hoping one of the team at Serif can take a look at your file to see if they can recover it for you, though there is certainly no guarantee they will be able to...

[Tom Kaszas]

Thanks - I appreciate your looking at it.

T.K.

[stokerg]

Hi @Tom Kaszas,

I've tried all the tricks i know to recover the file and all have failed.

I'll need to get this logged with the Dev team to see if they can recover it.  However, this isn't a quick process and I can't give you any time frame on when the file will be looked at.

[Tom Kaszas]

Thank you very much - I appreciate your help. Worse comes to worst, I'll have to revert to a previous usable version - lost about a week of work - a pain, but not the end of the world by any means and of course - the re-do won't be as good as the lost original.

Thank you again.

Tom K.