I've been working on an image for 3 days. Today, when I tried to open it I get "A file error has occured, unexpected end of file" This happened on ALL my backup files of the same scene. Help?

I still have trauma's of messages like 'A file error has occured'. I fear your scene might have been corrupted and that it is unable to retreive your scene. The 'unexpected end of file' part is new to me, usually it's just 'unexpected error occured'. You might want to try a memorymanager or more RAM to see if the scene just doesn't fit in your systems memory or if the file really is corrupted.

Where the backup's saved seperately with bryce or where they just copy's of the original scene done with explorer (or the MAC equivalent)?

Yes, there were backups and all of them gave me the same error. The backups were given different names and saved to different directories. The file sizes ranged from 198mgs to 250 mgs. I have a lot of RAM, so that isn't the issue. Running win2k 2200 AMD with 512 RAM

Did you do a cold reboot (turn machine off) for a few minutes? Maybe Bryce is hosed for that session.

Yes, I did the reboot, and I also reinstalled. No deal

Unfortuanetly I know this problem all to well. Yes the file is corrupt. It happened to me about 4 times this week. The "unexpected end of file" error means the file was not finished saving and is incomplete.

Unfortunatly i have to agree with Acuos! The files are wasted! Usually happens with larger scenes. Ive had 2 scenes, both about 700 mb, ruined in the same way. But its strange that your backups are corrupted as well! Perhaps an object in your scene, thats causing it. Or if your machine have been working for several days without being shut down, strange things can happen...

Did you try a system restore?

512 mgs of ram is not that much for 3D work, usually recommend 4 times the amount of your average file size.

Just wondering... Were there any light objects that were added to a group? I've heard that causes things to happen. Something to do with light source attributes that other objects don't have, and when they get grouped Bryce gets all confused and... Well, it's something that I've heard of.

I doubt you'll see anything there but check the temp directory in your bryce folder. I was able to recover a 65m file with system restore and was able to recover another with the temp directory. So far I haven't lost anything else, but it seems to be happening more and more lately on this forum.

As a last resort install Bryce to another directory and try to open the corrupted file. Perhaps Bryce got corrupted and just can't open the file. It's a long shot but worth a try.