Hello everybody,

I encountered the following error: I open Inkscape, embed some png images such that the file size is 10mb and save it as drawing.svg. Now, I can open the file via the terminal (>inkscape drawing.svg), but if I first start inkscape and then click on File->Open... I get the error "Failed to load the requested file ...".
What is the difference between these two ways of opening a file?

PS: I use Inkscape 0.91 on openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64). With Inkscape 0.48 both ways work.

Hi,

I think there should be no difference.
Is the directory a special one ? (webdav, samba,automount...) What if you copy the file to /tmp ? Can you open it both ways ?

Thanks for asking! I had no idea that this could be a problem.
My home directory is a NFS. If I copy the file to /tmp or a local had disk or usb drive is works perfectly.

I'm curious, why is a large file in a network file system a problem for Inkscape? And why has the old Inkscape 0.48 no problems with the same file?

Flan wrote:I'm curious, why is a large file in a network file system a problem for Inkscape? And why has the old Inkscape 0.48 no problems with the same file?

We don't know why this might fail, but we have reports about such failures with SVG as well as with SVGZ files, affecting Inkscape 0.48 and older versions too:

• Bug #1373322 “"Failed to open..." large file from NFS”
• Bug #270990 “Cannot open .svgz over NFS share.”

(Both reports filed before Inkscape 0.91 was released)

Ok, I wrote a comment to Bug #1373322 saying that it also affects Inkscape 0.91.