Affinity Designer File can't be opend "This file seems to be damaged"

[LuHe]

Hey guys,

I am running Affinity Designer 1.10.6 on my My Mac Monterey 12.0.1.

I had my Affinity files linked with my Google Drive Account where i had a desktop link.

Unfortunately the 2 attached documents both showed the same sign: "Das Dokument lässt sich nicht öffnen" "Die Datei scheint beschädigt zu sein" "This file seems to be damaged"

 

Unfortunately it is a very important file + I haven't done anything different since I opened it the last time.

Can you fix it? Is there a place where I may find a recovery file/auto save file?

 

PRO11-Turniere.afdesign PRO11-FS-Locations-Termine.afdesign

[Dan C]

Hi @LuHe,

Welcome to the Affinity Forums & sorry to hear you're having trouble.

I have tried to recover these documents using the tools available to me, however thus far I have been unable to repair these files, my apologies.

Inspecting the files in a HEX editor shows that a 'chunk' of data is missing, which would likely be the reason for this corruption -

3 hours ago, LuHe said:

I had my Affinity files linked with my Google Drive Account where i had a desktop link.

Due to the way the Affinity apps load/save files, our developers recommend only opening/saving files to a local location, with a copy of your document being uploaded to the cloud for backup purposes. Unfortunately it's likely due to the Google Drive location being used that this corruption has occurred.

I will be logging these files with our developers for further inspection, but due to the missing data it is unlikely that our team will be able to recover these files - our sincerest apologies for any inconveniences caused due to this. 

[LuHe]

Hey,

 

The linked data may be missing, because I didn't send you the linked photos.

Could you recover a data that I could open at least? I would be fine re-importing all the linked files.

 

Or is this also not possible?

Greetings,

Lucas

[Dan C]

Unfortunately the missing data is not related to your linked files, there are considerable sections of the file where no usable data exists - meaning it is unlikely this file can be recovered, my sincerest apologies once again.

[ATP]

Hello LuHe.

If you've worked with the file on Google Drive, you can restore earlier versions of the file from within https://drive.google.com/. Click the three dots on the right and choose 'Manage versions'. You should get a pop-up that lets you restore earlier versions of the file.