Bug 381926 - Not a valid krita file: portfolio work destroyed
Summary: Not a valid krita file: portfolio work destroyed
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: krita
Classification: Applications
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: 3.1.2
Platform: Other Microsoft Windows
: NOR critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Krita Bugs
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Reported: 2017-07-02 17:23 UTC by Lauryn McKinley
Modified: 2017-07-02 21:20 UTC (History)
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damaged Krita file (1.56 MB, application/x-krita)
2017-07-02 17:23 UTC, Lauryn McKinley
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Description Lauryn McKinley 2017-07-02 17:23:36 UTC
Created attachment 106422 [details]
damaged Krita file

I am currently applying for a major apprentice opportunity within one of the largest art shops in the city.  They asked to see a new digital piece so I spent all weekend creating work.  I spent about 18 hours trying to perfect a copy but when opening it to finish it now reads as a non-valid Krita file.

I have tried myself to salvage it, fix it with zip repair tools, anything I could, but my computer cannot take it as it bluescreens me each time I try.

If somebody could please salvage what they can I would be over the moon.  I'm just so angry I spent all that time and don't want it all to go to waste when my possible employers want to see it within a few days.

thank you so much if anybody is able to help
Comment 1 wolthera 2017-07-02 21:20:08 UTC
"End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive."

Jikes, jar -vfx doesn't work either. This is pretty bad.

I would give up on this file, and do the following:
1. Figure out if there's a filename.kra~ file in the same directory as your work is, that is the backup file, just rename it so that it says filename.kra. Backups are on by default, so it is very likely present. Backups are made every save, so if you have been mashing ctrl+s every so often you shouldn't have lost too much work.

2. Figure out why the hell there's a corruption on a regular save on your computer. Amongst the possibilities could be that your hard-drive is dying, and that can corrupt all the data on your computer. There are scanning utilities that will help you with that, but they are unique to your operating system, so you will need to google around. I implore you to do this, because dying harddrives are prime terrifying shit computers do.

Lastly, please sent problems like these to the forums, not the bugtracker, as the bugtracker is for actual bugs, not support questions. (The IRC channel can also be used and if is faster if you are asking when it's daytime in Europe).