Failed to Open

rachg01

I opened my file this morning to find that it has failed to open (this happens every time I try to open it). It looks like the file has corrupted and it won't even let me extract the files. Nothing obvious was wrong with it yesterday. What happened???

(running on Windows 10)

sebastiaan

Hi,

This indeed looks like the file is corrupted. This can happen for any number of reasons (mostly technical failures), and it will probably be difficult to figure out what happened exactly. However, there's a good chance that you'll be able to recover the contents of the file with a tool such as 7zip. To do so, first append the extension .tar.gz to the experiment filename, and then open the file in 7zip. If 7zip is able to open it, that should allow you to view the script and the contents of the file pool.

• http://osdoc.cogsci.nl/3.2/dev/fileformat/

And there's always the autosave backups, which you can find under Menu -> Tools -> Open backup folder.

Is this helpful?

Cheers!
Sebastiaan