Author Topic: Inkscape Linked image not found HALF OF MY PROJECT IS GONE!?  (Read 999 times)

June 05, 2018, 05:59:18 AM
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dennishasaproblem

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Hello everyone this is my problem.  :help:

My version just downloaded the newest to this date.

I was working last night every thing was okay. And its a big project im working on so i think i spend 2 months in this project. And now there is one small image that says Linked image not found. And the half of my project is gone im sure i saved it all im so sad does anyone know how to fix this?
I did not use a image i was just drawing. on most things so i dont get why every thing is gone. i used some images but they are all still there.
http://prntscr.com/jr0qhd

this is the image

I hope i can still recover it  :xf2:

Im working on Windows 8.1



Greetings,
 Dennis  :pen:
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June 05, 2018, 07:55:55 AM
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Welcome to the forum!

The "Linked Image Not Found" big red X image indicates that one imported raster image is not showing.  The most likely reason for that, is that you must have moved the original to a new folder (in Windows Explorer), or less likely, you deleted it. Or possibly you have opened the SVG file on a different computer from where you have the image.  It just means that Inkscape can't find it anymore.   So unless you deleted it from your computer, it's not lost.  You just need to find it, and either re-import it, or re-link it.  Or embed it, so that it can't get lost.

For the drawings which are missing, the location of those is not so certain.  If you're using layers (as in Layers menu > Layers) it's possible you accidentally hid a layer....or maybe made a layer transparent.  Beyond that, the possibilities are too numerous to guess about.  But if you can share the SVG file, we can look around for the contents.

If it is or was a very large file, it's possible it became corrupted.  Usually when we see this, nothing is really lost, but it's just some part of the code which creates the image is either missing, or scrambled.  There's a....I don't know, I'd guess a 50/50 chance that could be fixed - if that's the problem.  But again, if you could share the SVG file with us, we can investigate.

I can't think of any reason why having upgraded to a new version of Inkscape would have affected whether drawing contents are showing.  I don't think that would be part of this problem.
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June 07, 2018, 09:23:28 AM
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I've had a look at Dennis' corrupt file (via PM) and  managed to fix it.   It was approx 22 mb after it became corrupt, and I have no idea how large it was before.  Now after my fix, it's approx 19 mb. 

It sounds like most of the loss was an imported raster image....which of course is not really lost....assuming he still has a copy of it somewhere.  But really, it's way past time to split that file up into 2 or more files anyway.  I didn't look closely at the contents, but what I noticed looks like it's not one single contiguous image.  It looked like a collection of a lot of smaller images

I'm 99% sure that nothing more can be salvaged from it, than what I managed to save.  But just in case, Lazur, I wonder if you would please have a look at it, when you get a chance?  He doesn't want to post it publically, but would give you a link to it via PM.

He'll be watching for your reply, in case you might want to use email or some other way.

Thank you very much!  :D
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June 07, 2018, 03:20:18 PM
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Hi.

Share the file/drop me a link if you wan't me to look at it. Although I'm not sure what else I could do than what Brynn could already done with it.