File corruption - Affinity Designer. Urgent help

[PaulD333]

Have been working on a file for the past 3 days and all of a sudden this morning, it's corrupted!!

It is a web design mock-up, which of course today I was going to implement on a production site.

I've been working with affinity for around 5 years now with no issues until today and the past 2 years using this set up.

Can you please look at this asap please.

Mac Pro M1

External hard drive xfat

Sonoma 14.3.1

Affinity designer 1.10.8

Opticare Mock.afdesign

[Robocat]

Sorry, I can't open the file because it is indeed corrupt. I tried to open it with Designer 2 but no...

It will be able to place in Publisher

[GarryP]

I created a new Publisher V1 document and used Add Pages from File to recover some of the original – see attached file.
You might be able to use some of it, maybe via copy/paste.

Unfortunately, opening the document in Designer loses even more of the contents.

partially-recovered.afpub

[Robocat]

EPS

Opticare Mock.zip

[Robocat]

Designer

Opticare Mock (2).zip

[carl123]

1 hour ago, PaulD333 said:

Can you please look at this asap please.

This recovered one opens for me but I can't vouch for how stable it is

 

 

Opticare Mock-recovered2.afdesign

[Robocat]

All text converted to outline

[Robocat]

9 minutes ago, carl123 said:

This recovered one opens for me but I can't vouch for how stable it is

 

Opticare Mock-recovered.afdesign 69.9 MB · 1 download

It's Designer 2 file 🙂 

 

[Robocat]

Here is the designer2 -> SVG -> Designer1 file. That's all you can convert

Opticare Mock-recovered from SVG.zip

[carl123]

19 minutes ago, Robocat said:

It's Designer 2 file

Now replaced with V1 version in my original post

[PaulD333]

Carl123 I was able to open your file but only showed one dartboard but the SVG for Robocat has worked even better...phew!  it is a mock-up, so nothing concrete yet but now have access to the colour schemes and general layouts. So thank you.

I'll work on laptop hard drive from now on.

[David in Яuislip]

GarryP's method gets part of the way but if I make a new doc in both Photo & Publisher then place the corrupt file, it appears as an Embedded Document which can be double clicked to open then lots more stuff is available that can be copied. I'd expect this approach to work in Designer but I don't use it. Whether it's better than the svg version I don't know.
I've attached the Preflight report from Publisher which may help
Good luck

Preflight.txt

[Robocat]

2 hours ago, PaulD333 said:

Carl123 I was able to open your file but only showed one dartboard but the SVG for Robocat has worked even better...phew!  it is a mock-up, so nothing concrete yet but now have access to the colour schemes and general layouts. So thank you.

I'll work on laptop hard drive from now on.

You're welcome 🙂