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I was working in Designer with no issue, opened and saved file several times. I recently tried to open it again to work on some new designs, but now when I try to open the file a window pops up saying it's corrupted and has to close. Is there a way to restore it so I can open it? Thought it was maybe because of the last update, but my other files seem fine. Working on desktop PC in Designer 2.

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If you can share the file here, one of us can try. Or you could wait for a moderator to provide a private upload link.

But there's no guarantee it can be recovered, and you may need to go back to an earlier version that you saved with a different name.

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Hi @JPuckett and welcome to the forums,

If you have Publisher as well you can use the Document > Add Pages from File option which should hopefully allow you to recover your Designer file, however, it may not be 100% perfect depending on the level of file corruption.

If you were working with Artboards in Designer, then if you manage to recover your file in Publisher, export it to pdf and then open it in Designer and it will open as Artboards.

If you'd like someone on the forum to take a look at your file for you then please just upload your Designer file (along with any linked assets, should there be any) and we can try and recover your file for you.

If you'd prefer not to upload your file/s to the public forum you can reply to this post requesting a private Dropbox link to upload your files to where someone from the moderation or development team can take a look and report back.

Let us know how you get on... :)

 

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In addition to the advice above, first check the size of the file in Explorer (Windows) or Finder (macOS).
If the file size is zero then, unfortunately, there’s nothing to recover and nothing anyone can do with it.

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Thanks @Hangman for your help. I was able to recover just fine, though exported as PSD instead of PDF. Did have a little clean up as one of the images was discoloured, though that was in publisher so appears to be the corruption and not my method of exporting. Had never happened before and glad I didn't have to redo everything as I already sent sample images to a client.

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Hi @JPuckett,

Really glad to hear you managed to recover your file and haven't had to do too much to it to get things back to where you were. When you say one of the images was 'discoloured', is that possibly because your Designer file was RGB and your Publisher Document CMYK or for some other reason?

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