Can a .bip file get corrupt ?

[EGON]

One of my files is acting weird with the hdr editor. After I save changes the highlights go away on my model. Then I have to open the editor and move a slider a touch to get them back.Then when I go to render it asks me to save . I save and back to flat again.

[TpwUK]

Any file can become corrupted - The only real thing I can suggest is if you have a back-up file then do a CRC check up on the offending file

Martin

[Robb63]

Sadly, it's happened to me several times,although not for quite a while!! Is there a fingers crossed emoticon?

[PhilippeV8]

I sometimes have a lock up going on near or during save file action ... which results in a CTD and when i open the file, there's nothing there .. geometry is gone.
That's why I never "save", but only "save as v.00x"

[TpwUK]

oh yes PhilippeV8 everyone should learn that serialised saves are a real life saver ... Not seen the option in KS to do an incremental save, I wonder if it's there ?

Martin

[KeyShot]

We have not seen any issues with 4.1 corrupting files. Serialized saving is a good idea. We will add it.

[EGON]

It was a crappy image anyway. I notice once you start to use the HDRI edit things get a little hinky. For me anyway. I've learned to work around it.

[TpwUK]

Ahh binary toilet fodder, i suffer from that badly too, but at least i am never artistically constipated 

Martin

[xuewuyang]

Serialized saving is a good idea.




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[Claus Jensen]

Serialized saves / revision history has been added to the next version 4.2.

[fario]

My modeling software has an automatic incremental backup to a backup folder of the user.


Backup folder:
files:
blabla.bk0.sfk
blabla.bk1.sfk
blabla.bk2.sfk
blabla.bk3.sfk
blabla.bk4.sfk

then the number 5 replaces the file number 0, and so on.

This sometimes saved my life ....

In addition, in my modeling work, I save after every hour of work with a file increment 0, 1, 2, etc.. This allows me to return to a job step that would have been corrupted.

I welcome this initiative to 4.2, even though I did not have at the moment, no problems of corrupt files in KS.

Antoine

[KeyShot]

There are some rare cases with past releases where this could happen. Hardware issues could also cause this. Serialized saves are also useful to get an overview of the progress.