I'm sure where this goes exactly- but since this is an animation and I'm sure many have encounter similar problems. But I was wondering If I can restore this file? I do have a back up but I don't want my 6 hours of progress go to waste.
originally- it wasn't on the desktop but in its own folder I just tried moving it and duplicated it, non seems to work.
So I was wonder if there is a solution or should I just restart to its latest backup point?
If the FLA file mysteriously disappeared leaving the swf only, that happens to me a lot. take a 5 min break, cry, or do whatever you want, and just redo everything from your backup. this is probably caused by saving interruption, unexpected shutdown of the program, or computer crash. make your chances less to encounter this by saving the file, close the flash, and open it again, continue working.
if the file is only corrupted and the fla file still exist, I can fix that 80%, 20% for other issues. instruction is too long.
At 8/23/13 06:10 AM, manuelberja wrote: If the FLA file mysteriously disappeared leaving the swf only, that happens to me a lot. take a 5 min break, cry, or do whatever you want, and just redo everything from your backup. this is probably caused by saving interruption, unexpected shutdown of the program, or computer crash. make your chances less to encounter this by saving the file, close the flash, and open it again, continue working.
if the file is only corrupted and the fla file still exist, I can fix that 80%, 20% for other issues. instruction is too long.
I know that feeling and it sucks. I remember there "might" be a way to save things from your library by changing the fla to a zip and trying to navigate the file. You can try researching on that . I try working in ways that would lower the chances of corruption:
-Save in the uncompress XFL format.
-Always make back ups
-Work in a optimize style as much as possible (less curves) so its much easier for flash to process
-Save each scene in different save files so you can compile them later.
Currently doing short rough animations here http://khanhcpham.deviantart.com/
@manuelberja- I didn't compile it, so there isn't no swf here.
@KhanhCPham- Since it was a frame by frame animation, it'd be kinda useless to grab the useless things in the library.
At 8/23/13 04:51 PM, TouchEverything wrote: @manuelberja- I didn't compile it, so there isn't no swf here.
@KhanhCPham- Since it was a frame by frame animation, it'd be kinda useless to grab the useless things in the library.
Never mind, I lied- I have the Swf.
If the corrupted file is still there, we can fix it for you, I have few ways of fixing it, use dumping grounds to upload the file and show it to us, up to you if you trust us.
the fixing is something like KhanhCPham said, but i have few more details. and it's really a huge effort to discuss it here and would be a waste if not the solution.
Thank god it's only 6 hours of work, and not a whole month or whatever, or an animation that is almost finished.
I had that once. I never go without backups again.
At 8/23/13 11:37 PM, Damien wrote: Thank god it's only 6 hours of work, and not a whole month or whatever, or an animation that is almost finished.
I had that once. I never go without backups again.
I agree and you can actually make it better from what you learn from those 6 hours. But it depends on how the animation is constructed though. I just remember if you have the latest swf of the file, there is a swf decompiler. It tries to turn the swf into a workable format so you may be able to copy and paste the frames you want since its frame by frame. You can free trial it and see. All these "quick fit it" methods are never perfect and you might actually save more time redoing it.
Currently doing short rough animations here http://khanhcpham.deviantart.com/
At 8/24/13 01:15 AM, KhanhCPham wrote:At 8/23/13 11:37 PM, Damien wrote: Thank god it's only 6 hours of work, and not a whole month or whatever, or an animation that is almost finished.I agree and you can actually make it better from what you learn from those 6 hours. But it depends on how the animation is constructed though. I just remember if you have the latest swf of the file, there is a swf decompiler. It tries to turn the swf into a workable format so you may be able to copy and paste the frames you want since its frame by frame. You can free trial it and see. All these "quick fit it" methods are never perfect and you might actually save more time redoing it.
I had that once. I never go without backups again.
yeah sometimes when I lose my animation I use the swf because I normally keep testing my animation for about 5 to 10 times in each 5 minute of work! save my work, after the end of the day backup file!
Wow. I know this feeling and I think I may have some advice. With the newgrounds exclusive swf to mov file converter called swivel, you can import multiple swfs at a time to be created into one big movie file. If you do this, then ultimately, you will have your full movie back, you just won't be able to tweak that scene in any way or work with it in flash. But in the future, save a lot, but more importantly SAVE AS all the time. I do a save as every time I finish animating a shot. I have done this since september 2012 and Flash has only crashed once, and I only lost literally 2 minutes of lypsync *auto recovery + save as= Good flash) Hope this helped a little.
Bryn
Since again; its a frame by frame animation- and only around a min long, I find it unnecessary to cut the file.
And since I use a vcam that I haven't installed yet and I very rarely ctrl+enter and compile my cartoon.
So if someone could fix my fla. file I would save me 2 days worth- or some shit.
if anyone could fix the swf. it saves me about 6 hours.
The Fla.
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/1043156a646365e07f2473db3199e1af
The swf.
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/e2b623effe6b21480226ba5aa4693059
this is all I could do the audios you should add them your self! :P
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/b4ee3a6edce07d5fe3e1ad094b1ee650
At 8/24/13 12:48 PM, A-Genius wrote: this is all I could do the audios you should add them your self! :P
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/b4ee3a6edce07d5fe3e1ad094b1ee650
You save my god damn dick, good sir.
so, solved? i won't be trying to download it.
good for you.
At 8/24/13 09:42 PM, manuelberja wrote: so, solved? i won't be trying to download it.
good for you.
Yea, you did the Swf. But most the work was in the fla. file, I'll just say its completely unsurvivable.
me and a buddy use google drive with sync folders to prevent this from happening. everytime a file is updated in the sync folder (i.e. saved) a copy of that save is sent to the google drive host and any linked folders. so now i have a local file, he has a local file, and there is a cloud stored file as well.
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