Recovery file -> restore?

[strt]

Hi,

i opened Affinity Designer and it asked me if i want to open the recovery file. I selected no by accident. Is there any way to restore the last recovery manually?

Best

[walt.farrell]

If the application works as it is supposed to, when you said "No" it will have deleted the recovery file. So I think it is unlikely you'll be able to recover it. But you could look in your Autosave directory and see what is there. Where you find that depends on which release of Designer you're using, and what OS you're using it on, and (if Windows and Designer 2) which version of the installer you used (MSIX or MSI/EXE).

[strt]

Im using Mac and Designer 2. I found a file in the autosave folder. But how to open it? its .autosave ending

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, strt said:

 its .autosave ending

Change the name to end in .afdesign and you can then try to Open it. This may or may not work, and if it works it may or may not be the file you wanted. But if you're lucky....

[markw]

The long string of numbers that makes up the recovery file's name is the date and time the backup was created.
If it's not the file you want you could also look through your system backups of the recovery folder to see if the file you want was captured earlier by it.

[R C-R]

3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Change the name to end in .afdesign and you can then try to Open it. This may or may not work, and if it works it may or may not be the file you wanted. But if you're lucky....

In my (limited) experience, this never works in the Mac version because the autosave version includes very little data, typically only in the hundreds of bytes. From what I have read, the Windows version works differently.

[strt]

15 hours ago, markw said:

The long string of numbers that makes up the recovery file's name is the date and time the backup was created.
If it's not the file you want you could also look through your system backups of the recovery folder to see if the file you want was captured earlier by it.

Where else can i look for recovery files? You mean Time Machine? I dont do that every day..

12 hours ago, R C-R said:

In my (limited) experience, this never works in the Mac version because the autosave version includes very little data, typically only in the hundreds of bytes. From what I have read, the Windows version works differently.

true.. that doesnt work

[markw]

1 hour ago, strt said:

You mean Time Machine?

Yes, via Time Machine or any other third party automatic backup app that runs constantly in the background, there’s a chance it caught a copy of the file in the last state you wanted.

[strt]

ok. i think i just have to deal with the loss. thanks anyway!