hello, vue crashed on me today after getting the "out of memory" message. i was working on a scene all day long at the time, i was playing around with the scatter replicate function when i got the message. now i cannot open the scene, major bummer cause it was just starting to look alright. is there any way to rcover the scene? or do i just write it off as a loos and plan on getting more memory? i have 512 megs installed now, getting more was definitely in my plans anyway, when i had some extra loot. thanks in advance for the assistance! eb

Best advice, save your scenes often. ;) Did you try rebooting your computer then start Vue and try to open it? Sometimes that helps free up ram.

yes i did restart and still no luck. i save my files before and after any significant changes, this way if it looks like crap i can just go back, i do this every couple of minutes. the file was a recent save, whenever i try to open it a message comes up stating that it is unable to read the file. i figure it is corrupted and i should just delete it, but i wanted to check here first to see if anyone else encountered this problem. thanks sirkrite for the time and suggestion, definitely appreciated! eb

If you have a *.bak file of it, just rename it to a *.vue file

but there is a .bak file ! If you have no other solution, try to delete your scene, and just rename the .bak in .vue, it should work, your save will be available...

too late !

Ahhh, eb...I feel your pain as this was...I hope it's in the past tense now ;-)...happening too often to me! One thing that has helped me (and you may already be doing this, but just wanted to share this) is a suggestion by MightPete NOT to save over old files, rather save them sequentially i.e. forest scene1, forest scene2 AND use a name of some sort don't just number your saves, i.e. 1,2,3. Hope this helps you or someone else!?! ==steve

gebe, yl, spider1313, my heros! did what you said and renamed the .bak file. sure enough it loaded just fine. thank you all for the help, it turned my frown upside down. hehe! i wish i would have known that trick earlier, the picture would have been posted by now! oh well at least now i know, and knowing is half the battle, lol! thanks again for your time and assistance!!!!

Yeah eb, if you ever need any help on Vue Crash, just simply send an IM to Steve (Spider1313). He is doing his bachelors degree on Vue Crash and Troubleshoots. :-)

alright nish i'll keep that in mind. kinda sounds like me with windows! hehe!

ROFLMAO...BUT...just a minute, nish...it's my post-graduate work in crashes I'm in the midst of right now!!! ...tho' it's still OK to give me a holler and we'll share crash stories '-)! ==steve

hehe .. Yeah, we'll have some great bed time stories for our grandchildrens. :-) "Once upon a time, there was a Vue artist named Steve. Oneday Steve had a tremendous trouble with Vue files. 75% of his files don't open!!! ......" ........and you know fairytells don't stand a chance against this stuffs. :D

Ahhhh, I can just envision now, kazi...sighhhh... No grampy! Not that yucky 'Make Way For Ducklings' again!! Tell us the one 'bout that time when you had that VUE file that was like a megazillion bytes big on that...uhhhmmmm... it was a windex system, wasn't it...and evvvvverrrrry thing just went crash! ==steve

lol ... and no doubt we'll be best storytellers of our time! :-)