I hesitate to even respond. Posting anywhere one should know common sense policies, for the welfare of those that view it. There are other ways to get legitimate help, such as providing suitable images. If that is what you want.
Content of the files aside, the issue is every time I try to open them after the last autosave I get an error message saying "Intenal error, inkscape will now close" and the program closes
No error message like " missing Blabla in line x "? I'd rename Inkscape's Preferences xml file and restart Inkscape to check if there's a property setting the culprit.
Out there in the big bad world, there are poorly constructed svg files that are toxic to Inkscape. (I'll disregard for now any potentially toxic content.) These files can result in instant death immediately on contact. I must refer you back to my original solution - surgery with a text editing application. In my experience, text objects are the most likely source of the poison.
@Polygon the only error message I'm getting is "Inkscape encountered an internal error and will now close". New files and other files are still functioning
@Paddy_CAD .svg is the default save for my version of Inkscape
.svg is the default save for my version of Inkscape
This is a late reply, but I think it's a useful addition to the conversation.
SVG files are in fact text files using an XML schema to represent 2D graphics that can be interpreted by a rendering engine for display and print. Inkscape then is a graphical interface for creating and modifying these text files.
This means you can change your drawings with any text editing application. There are several free text editors that recognise XML and provide text highlighting as a visual aid. You can also find XML editors with more tools and functions dedicated to XML documents. On Windows you might use Notepad++ or XML Notepad and there are equivalents for every platform. Unlike Inkscape, these applications don't understand svg so it's easy to generate invalid files, but tinkering inside is actually a good way to learn. You'll probably break things so always keep a copy of the last working version of your files.
Beginners' Questions Internal Error, unable to access saved file
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I was working on inkscape when the program suddenly crashed and now the saved file and autosave file won't open.
It might be possible to recover the content with a text editing application. Can you upload the last saved file? And maybe one of the autosaved files?
These are the files. Fair warning, the content is NSFW
Images have been deleted by moderator because they do not comply with the terms of the forum. Maybe you can share these privately.
This is not suitable for the young nor anyone in this community. Moderators, please remove it.
@Hum yeah, that's not helping my situation. I still can't access my files
I hesitate to even respond. Posting anywhere one should know common sense policies, for the welfare of those that view it. There are other ways to get legitimate help, such as providing suitable images. If that is what you want.
@Hum those were literally the files I'm trying to access
The moderator said you could share them ☆privately☆. Perhaps that would move things along.
Content of the files aside, the issue is every time I try to open them after the last autosave I get an error message saying "Intenal error, inkscape will now close" and the program closes
Can a browser display this image or do you get some error message?
Browser can view where the page was last set, but most of the content is missing. i need to access the working file
No error message like " missing Blabla in line x "? I'd rename Inkscape's Preferences xml file and restart Inkscape to check if there's a property setting the culprit.
Out there in the big bad world, there are poorly constructed svg files that are toxic to Inkscape. (I'll disregard for now any potentially toxic content.) These files can result in instant death immediately on contact. I must refer you back to my original solution - surgery with a text editing application. In my experience, text objects are the most likely source of the poison.
Here's a related post from the recent past. https://inkscape.org/forums/beyond/internal-error/
@Polygon the only error message I'm getting is "Inkscape encountered an internal error and will now close". New files and other files are still functioning
@Paddy_CAD .svg is the default save for my version of Inkscape
I meant error messages in browsers.
No errors in browser, but it's a read-only. Guess I'll just have to start over
This is a late reply, but I think it's a useful addition to the conversation.
SVG files are in fact text files using an XML schema to represent 2D graphics that can be interpreted by a rendering engine for display and print. Inkscape then is a graphical interface for creating and modifying these text files.
This means you can change your drawings with any text editing application. There are several free text editors that recognise XML and provide text highlighting as a visual aid. You can also find XML editors with more tools and functions dedicated to XML documents. On Windows you might use Notepad++ or XML Notepad and there are equivalents for every platform. Unlike Inkscape, these applications don't understand svg so it's easy to generate invalid files, but tinkering inside is actually a good way to learn. You'll probably break things so always keep a copy of the last working version of your files.