Honestly, I didn't think this would work since I run Storyboard Pro. My entire PC locked-up and completely froze and was forced to unplug while my project was running. The entire project got corrupted when I tried to open it again. This is the only solution I found, and it worked! I may have lost a few hours of hard work, but I will gladly prefer to take that over re-doing 9+ months. Thank you so much!
MY GOD YOU SAVED MY LIFE!, i almost lost my university work because it got corrupted. Some things did disapeard but almost all the file was revocered Thank you so much!!
I legitimately cannot thank you enough. I thought I'd lost an entire project because I was stupid enough to not make any copies You're a life saver, dude!!
@@fabio_gioffre Actually, it was my final project for this semester at Uni. Still in the early stages, but glad I could get it back I'll be making copies from now on!
I’m at school right now but, Last night I lost all of my hard work, it took me three weeks to finish, it had blur effects, a vivid gradient on the screen to give it a dramatic movie effect, etc. The only problem tho, was that the entire software closed on me out of nowhere that night, I tried opening the Xstage again and it immediately showed a popup, which said something similar to “Scene 1 (xstage name) not found” then when I closed the popup to see what was in the file, all of my frames/drawings were completely empty, everything was empty and blank. I’m not sure if I’m a lost cause at this point, but when I get home, I really hope this method works. I really need a miracle at this point man..
when i open my file it opened, then said that 4 colors cannot be found... when it finished loading i can only see a part of the shoe... all the nodes are there, but i cant see anything not even the jpeg file T_T i tried what you did.. didnt work... omg help
@@fabio_gioffre i dont have the file that says error with the colors where they ask if i want to fix the missing colors. but i do have a recording of what happened to my file even if everything is still there T_T where will i post?
I have a file from Toon BOOM Studio 4 that glitched while I close the program. Every time I try to open the file now, it says "Unexpected data found while reading..." Once scene specifically is missing, but all the colors used for the drawings are still there. How do I find the corrupted folder?
Does the same thing work with palletes/pencil textures? I'm getting an error that says "Unable to read [...pallete_library...pencil_texture...].tga" and I'm freaking out 😭
@@fabio_gioffre The thing is, despite the error message the file and drawings are all there in the scene and play fine! I tried copying and pasting the frames into a whole new scene and only then was it crossed out. With the current scene, the only issues I've had so far was some of the drawings of my roughs disappearing (hasn't happened recently) and earlier today the file just didn't save, so I switched to a backup copy which works just fine again :/
@@Koopacake hmm ya it sounds like you're just missing that one texture from your palette. Palettes in toonboom can be pretty wierd lol, but if it doesn't seem to be messing anything up I wouldn't worry too much. Maybe you can send me the scene where its working and the one where its not working so I can compare them
@@fabio_gioffre I can certainly do that at some point in the next few days (it's late atm and I'm not on my computer) and I'd really appreciate it, even if there's no actual solution it would still help. Do you have an email or a Discord for this?
Hello I don't know if I am doing something wrong but I have the newest toonboom Harmony 22 and I save my project constantly and was trying to close out of Toonboom when I needed to reset my computer and suddenly I got this error message and I followed the video and it seems to work for everyone else but I still get the error even after my file turned back to a H logo just like yours I don't know what to do at this point and it is weird because it only corrupted one project but all the others work great please help if anyone had this issue and it still didn't work if you have a solution I would appreciate it !
Hi! Hmm that is strange, I would need to take a closer look at the file. You can send it to me if you want @ fabgioffre@gmail.com and I can get back to you. Anyone else experience this?
What if you your screen is white where you still have your timeline where you can’t see anything you’ve done😅 tried even taking what was in the time line…no luck with that either
Well, this method didn't work for me, i don't know why, but harmony does saves our deleted work in elements folder, so i just manually imported every element and scene.
oh man did you get it back? oh and I also noticed that you were accidentally kicked from the discord servor. I fixed the problema and you can rejoin here if you want:) discord.gg/8nfAYs99
@@gabrielsaomarcos2162 oh nice that's good to know. Ya I really want to get a nice library of tech help videos. Toonboom can be really strange sometimes
Honestly, I didn't think this would work since I run Storyboard Pro. My entire PC locked-up and completely froze and was forced to unplug while my project was running. The entire project got corrupted when I tried to open it again. This is the only solution I found, and it worked! I may have lost a few hours of hard work, but I will gladly prefer to take that over re-doing 9+ months. Thank you so much!
Oh nice! That's good to know it works in this situation
Its been a year since you made this and it still works. Thank you my friend.
Lol ya the guy who showed me this is a toonboom wizard
@@fabio_gioffre Lmao I had to come back to this video again
@@chuckygt1 haha oh no, wat happened?
@@fabio_gioffre same thing as last time. Corrupted file. Luckily, I remembered this video existed xD thanks again
@@chuckygt1 Oh damn! well I am glad that this video still works haha
Can't explain how grateful I am my dear man! You've just saved me two weeks of hard work!
haha no problem I'm glad it worked for you
Thank you so much for sharing! Spent a couple days trying to work a solution with ToonBoom and this was all I needed.
no problem! ya the tech lead at my old studio knew exactly what to do!
MY GOD YOU SAVED MY LIFE!, i almost lost my university work because it got corrupted. Some things did disapeard but almost all the file was revocered Thank you so much!!
@@rociotorres1504 wow nice! That's great that it worked:) hope u get all your uni stuff finished
insane hack, thank you so much for making this video, almost 3 years later and it still works!
lol thank you! its nice to hear that it still works:) Hopefully you dont have to use it too much ahah
I legitimately cannot thank you enough. I thought I'd lost an entire project because I was stupid enough to not make any copies
You're a life saver, dude!!
@@mysteryv9862 lol nice!! Glad it worked for u. Was it a personal project?
@@fabio_gioffre Actually, it was my final project for this semester at Uni. Still in the early stages, but glad I could get it back
I'll be making copies from now on!
I’m at school right now but,
Last night I lost all of my hard work, it took me three weeks to finish, it had blur effects, a vivid gradient on the screen to give it a dramatic movie effect, etc.
The only problem tho, was that the entire software closed on me out of nowhere that night, I tried opening the Xstage again and it immediately showed a popup, which said something similar to “Scene 1 (xstage name) not found” then when I closed the popup to see what was in the file, all of my frames/drawings were completely empty, everything was empty and blank.
I’m not sure if I’m a lost cause at this point, but when I get home, I really hope this method works.
I really need a miracle at this point man..
Hmm ya let me know if it does. Maybe there is another solution
Seriously i was about to cry. My file got corrupted right before the submission deadline. Thanks for saving my life😭😭
Oh nice!! Im so happy that u got your stuff back! Good luck on your assignment
BRILLIANT!!!!!!
This also worked on Storyboard Pro files. You saved me a day worth of work :)
Oh nice! That's good to know that it also works for storyboard pro!
You saved my life, this just happened to me and I was going crazy! Thank you very much for your contribution.
nice! I'm glad that you recovered everything. Was it for work or just personal projects?
OMG thanks you so much for this Fabio!!!😭 i thought my 5 hours of work would go to waste.. Thank you again 🙏
No problem! I’m glad you got your work back😀
not all heroes wear capes, thank u so much man
Haha no problem!! Glad it worked
Thank you so much man!! You save my life and weeks of work.
No problem! Ya I was surprised when it worked
I was doubtful but it still works!! Im so relieved my amv is saved, thank you so much!!
woo! nice, I'm glad that is worked! Was this for work or school?
@@fabio_gioffre personal project for fun and practice!
@@fabio_gioffre personal project!
@@fabio_gioffrepersonal project!
thank you for this. it worked for me though some tools and windows on my workspace was removed. but it's all good now.
Oh nice and Hmm that's strange, which tools?
Superb!! Saved my 3 minute animatic project. Thank you so much :-)
Nice!! Wat is the animatic about?
It was a pre school project @@fabio_gioffre
Trăiască familia ta! Sa-ti dea Dumnezeu sănătate!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
thank you:) and thanks for watching
Thank you sooooooo much!!! Literally saved my life!!!!!! Keep up the great work :D
No problem! And thank u! I appreciate the support
i was literally going to cry but you saved me thank you so much
Lol nice!!! I'm glad it worked
OMG!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU SAVED ME!😭😭😭 i though i already lost my 1 week of work!
I'm glad you got it all back! was it for a school project?
@fabio_gioffre it's for my job thank you so much again!😭😭
when i open my file it opened, then said that 4 colors cannot be found... when it finished loading i can only see a part of the shoe... all the nodes are there, but i cant see anything not even the jpeg file T_T i tried what you did.. didnt work... omg help
Hmm interesting. Can u take a screenshot and send it over. I think I will need a better look. Maybe drop a link here or post it in our discord.
@@fabio_gioffre okay hold on
@@janeygadil7161 no problem let me know when u do
@@fabio_gioffre i dont have the file that says error with the colors where they ask if i want to fix the missing colors. but i do have a recording of what happened to my file even if everything is still there T_T where will i post?
@@janeygadil7161 ok perfect, here post it here in the discord. here is the invite link discord.gg/zX3VcJQU
I have a file from Toon BOOM Studio 4 that glitched while I close the program. Every time I try to open the file now, it says "Unexpected data found while reading..." Once scene specifically is missing, but all the colors used for the drawings are still there. How do I find the corrupted folder?
Hmm can I send me a screenshot of the error? @ fabiogioffreanimation@gmail.com
@@fabio_gioffre sent
@@alexr1592 ok I’ll have a look
@@fabio_gioffre thanks, much appreciated!
I just recovered so much work! thank you!
Nice! Happy to help
Does the same thing work with palletes/pencil textures? I'm getting an error that says "Unable to read [...pallete_library...pencil_texture...].tga" and I'm freaking out 😭
Hmm I'm not sure but you can try lol. And is the palette Crossed out when you open the file? Or just simply not there?
@@fabio_gioffre The thing is, despite the error message the file and drawings are all there in the scene and play fine! I tried copying and pasting the frames into a whole new scene and only then was it crossed out.
With the current scene, the only issues I've had so far was some of the drawings of my roughs disappearing (hasn't happened recently) and earlier today the file just didn't save, so I switched to a backup copy which works just fine again :/
@@fabio_gioffre oh also the "..." Aren't actually in the error message, I just didn't feel I had to write out the whole file directory
@@Koopacake hmm ya it sounds like you're just missing that one texture from your palette. Palettes in toonboom can be pretty wierd lol, but if it doesn't seem to be messing anything up I wouldn't worry too much. Maybe you can send me the scene where its working and the one where its not working so I can compare them
@@fabio_gioffre I can certainly do that at some point in the next few days (it's late atm and I'm not on my computer) and I'd really appreciate it, even if there's no actual solution it would still help. Do you have an email or a Discord for this?
Hello I don't know if I am doing something wrong but I have the newest toonboom Harmony 22 and I save my project constantly and was trying to close out of Toonboom when I needed to reset my computer and suddenly I got this error message and I followed the video and it seems to work for everyone else but I still get the error even after my file turned back to a H logo just like yours I don't know what to do at this point and it is weird because it only corrupted one project but all the others work great please help if anyone had this issue and it still didn't work if you have a solution I would appreciate it !
Hi! Hmm that is strange, I would need to take a closer look at the file. You can send it to me if you want @ fabgioffre@gmail.com and I can get back to you. Anyone else experience this?
You sabes my life after a power shutdown!
lol nice! glad that this worked for you!!
What if you your screen is white where you still have your timeline where you can’t see anything you’ve done😅 tried even taking what was in the time line…no luck with that either
lol are you in the camera view or drawing view? do you still see the keyframes in the timeline?
@@fabio_gioffre only the ones that are a different color but even then only a few
@@seanmccarron3466 and are you in the camera view? or the drawing view?
@@fabio_gioffre I think drawing view
@@seanmccarron3466 ok try switching the view to camera view
Well, this method didn't work for me, i don't know why, but harmony does saves our deleted work in elements folder, so i just manually imported every element and scene.
@@grimthereaper6807 that’s interesting and it worked after u did that?
@@fabio_gioffre well cannot say it actually worked but yeah i now don't have to start from the scratch, it saves the drawings and pallets only :(
@@grimthereaper6807 hmm it’s too bad u didn’t get a screen recording so I could have a look
@@fabio_gioffre 😅 may be next time i get the issue, will make sure to do that and comment here ^^
@@grimthereaper6807 hahah well I hope it never happens to you again
You saved my life man!!!!!! THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!!!!
No Problem I am glad this has helped so many people
damn it worked .. on my STORYBOARD FILE AS WELL ... THANKS A TON
Oh nice! That’s good to know it works for both
How did it work for you in Storyboard pro? Did you do it with the sbpro and the aux files? It did not work for me...
I owe you a drink for this video.
Lol ur welcome! I may take u up on that haha
Thanks man I lost a project I worked on for days 😅
oh man did you get it back? oh and I also noticed that you were accidentally kicked from the discord servor. I fixed the problema and you can rejoin here if you want:) discord.gg/8nfAYs99
@@fabio_gioffre yes I got it back but I’m still scared to close the software 😅
How do you do this for packed files?!
hmm are you talking about if the file is zipped/compressed?
Thank you so so much for sharing!!!! this absolutely saved me right now :))
I am glad you got your work back! lol ya this was really scary when it happened to me too hahaha
Oh my god dude thank you so much. I was panicking.
hahah i'm glad you got all yuour stuff back. Was it for work or just personal project?
Some tips to lost drawings?
Like your drawing swaps aren't showing up?
OMG you've just saved my life thak you so much love you
Lol no problem? Glad u got ur stuff back
Appreciate it man u saved me🙏🙏🙏😭
No problem! That's good that it worked. Which version of toonboom are u using?
thank you bud this helped me so much ! :D
Nice! No problem, I'm glad it worked
Thank you for sharing this, I thought I was doomed :D
haha thats great that you got it all back!
Oh my goodness thank you so much 😭😭😭
no problem! let me know if there are any other tec problems you run into
God bless you brother 🙏
Haha thanks I'm glad this worked
THANK YOU SO MUCH! you saved my work! < 3
No problem! I'm glad this helped:)
@@fabio_gioffre Going to share this :) know some friends that had the same problem. thanks again!
It worked for me on Storyboard Pro
@@gabrielsaomarcos2162 oh nice that's good to know. Ya I really want to get a nice library of tech help videos. Toonboom can be really strange sometimes
Thanks Fabio - Recovered
Nice! That's great!
Men, you saved my life, thank you so much!!!! :,D
Nice! I'm glad you got your work back! What were u working on?
This was great. Mind asking your guy about an error message for being unable to read .tvg? 😭 months of work hang in the balance
Oh very interesting, I'll ask him about it. You wouldn't happen to have a screenshot of the message would you?
@@fabio_gioffre sure, where do i send it?
@@jenillebrown7361 nice. You can send it to fabgioffre@gmail.com
HELPFUL, THANK YOU!
nice dude! glad it worked out for ya
you saved my life omg, i was about to sob like a mf
Haha i felt the same way when someone showed me this too. glad it worked for you
i could kiss you thank you thank you thank you thank you godsend may you live the greatest life any man could ever live
@@princypeter4428 haha I'm glad it worked for u!
hey thank you soo much. it works yayyyyy
nice! super glad you got your files back!
omg thank you so much!!!!
@@BeatriceWaithaka glad it worked for u!
you save my day ! thankssss
Lol no problem! I'm glad it worked for u!
bless ya man
thanks dude! did the fix work for u?
@@fabio_gioffre yeah, had the exact same issue and worked perfectly
@@ayodrawsstuffforclout1512 oh nice! ya I was just trying to pay it forward.
Thank you
no problem! I'm glad you got your files back!! were you working on a personal project or was it for work?
Life saver
haha woo! glad that this worked for you
OMG thank you
Lol did it work for u?
@@fabio_gioffre yes
I think it made it worse you should take down this video
Oh no! What happened?
s2 You
saved me!
Lol nice! I'm glad I worked
ggod bless you
Haha did u get your work back ?
fuck man, thank you, saved my ass at work just now T_T
lol no worries dude! glad you got all your work back!
Thank you for saving my ass 💖💖💖
oh nice! glad this worked!