Android Corrupted file?

[Sabriel_Art]

Hey guys, hat in hand, I did a dumb thing. My tablet likes to reopen in previous folders, and at some point tonight, I saved my latest document into a read-only folder. Krita didn’t like that. I had autosavess enabled, but not backups. The file has content! Cool! 2.07kb, so I made a copy hoping to pull the compressed png, I saw some of Soos’s old notes about it. Converting via save did not fix, and the zip can’t be extracted, so… I will shuffle it to desktop and try repair tools before I call it dead.

I’m hoping there’s an easy fix discovered in recent times, anyone had any luck? I’ll redo it, I’m pre-emptively resigned, just looking for a Hail Mary XD

[Michelist]

Sorry to say this, but your file is most likely gone. Why do I think so? Because the smallest KRA-File I have has already 30kb in size, and that is a tiny test picture with only two layers and nearly no content.

It seems you already did the following, but I’ll write it anyway, maybe it will help others who stumble over this topic!
If you are trying to recover a corrupted file, you must first make a copy of it with your file manager, anything else has to be considered a tendency towards digital suicide, because it could shred your last straw. So if you try to rescue the file and that try should damage it, you have that backup from which you can make the next copy for the next try, but never use your last straw until you decide the patient has passed away.

Furthermore, you really need to read up what for autosaves and backups are meant:

Saving, AutoSave and Backup Files

The biggest problem with these functions are a not so lucky chosen name for crash-recovery files and users who don’t read a manual, because “assuming” should be sufficient (shouldn’t it?), combined it leads to fatal losses.

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But since you need to prepare your process of file handling for the future, I want to point you to this post, where I describe possible ways to never lose that much work again, make your process of file handling with Krita a lot safer, including safety nets (from the second paragraph on):

"The file format cannot be parsed" issue, "Not a valid Krita file" (android)

Please make a copy of your corrupted file. After doing so, go to Ufile.io and upload the file to that website, there you get a link to your uploaded file. Then come back to this topic and click on my avatar picture, this will show some information, and you will see a blue button on the right side which says “Message”, click on that button and paste the link from Ufile.io for downloading your file into the text box and send this link to me. Then I’ll try and see if I’m able to rescue your file. …

This may be helpful too, but it is very similar:

Krita deleted 12 hours of work

Hello @Chara_Dreemurr and welcome to the forum! What you can do to create a safety cushion is to activate the setting ‘‘Create a Backup File on Saving’’ in Krita under ‘‘Settings’’ >> ‘‘Configure Krita’’ >> ‘‘General’’ in the ‘‘File Handling’’ tab, you can leave the options ‘‘Backup File Location’’ and ‘‘Backup File Suffix’’ below this as they are or adjust them to suit your requirements, and then specify the number of backups you want to keep under ‘‘Number of Backup Files Kept’…

Maybe it will help you.

Michelist

[Sabriel_Art]

@Michelist

users who don’t read a manual

Alas. Well, thanks @Michelist, I appreciate your time.