Yep, sam, same thing happened to me. I was working on my tea splash metaball image (again) and I had it almost done, it was rendering but my computer was having problems so I saved it when I closed bryce (even though I had saved it 5 seconds before that) and I had chosen to shupt down windows... As you know multiple K metaballs take a long long time to save, and windows shut down before it finished. I figured it'd be ok and most likely bryce writes to a page file before overwriting the previous save.. (nope...) freaking corel makes it overwrite the other file in real time. Is it just me or does this seem really stupid? Anyway the file was ruined, no chance of saving it. It opened but there were no objects to be seen (even though the save file was 24 megs)