the scriptlog is the log of all commands you use while working, as a script.
So you can execute that to recreate (all) the work you did.
theres a preference to restrict the number of lines, you can make this to
unlimited
this file is automatically overwritten when opening XSI, so in case of a
crash
you need to rename or copypaste into a text file, before launching XSI.
since you restarted yours was no good anymore, sorry.
its a bit stupid that it works this way, it should at least backup 1 version
When you use this, some caution is advisable:
- some stuff is not or partly logged, you wont be able to recreate it this
way.
- allways look for the most recent save scene command.
delete all lines before this, open the scene and work from there.
if you cant find it, chances are you had a limited number of lines,
so you probably miss a part.
- you should not run any save, export, render ... commands from this script,
as they can ruin data you had previously saved.
best practice is to go a few lines at a time, read them to quickly know
what they do...
...
All this aside its a real lifesaver...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joey Ponthieux" <j.g.ponthieux(at)LaRC.NASA.GOV>
To: <xsi(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 6:16 PM
Subject: .dmp file?
> Hello,
> Yesterday I had a severe crash. XSI 5 Adv WinXP. I lost two hours of
> work when I went to rename a node and the interface locked up with the
> white name entry still up and an hourglass floating over the interface.
> I was using a Transform Group to collect and parent about 20 objects.
> It hung when I hit enter to accept the new name for the new Transform
> Group. Anyway after a very long time the software failed to crash and
> appeared to not save a backup scene, it failed to prompt me to load a
> recovery scene on restart after I closed the app. This morning, after
> configuring automatic backups and looking for where the backup are
> stored I stumbled across some files in my SI user directory. Two files
> correspond to the exact time of software failure yesterday. One is a
> scriptlog which holds quite a bit of useful information though I can't
> tell if it is all there to use the script to rebuild what was lost. The
> second is a .dmp file. It's larger than the script and is written at the
> same time. What is this .dmp file? Can I rebuild my scene from it?(not
> holding my breath of course). I tried opening it from XSI but no luck.
> Any ideas?
>
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>
> Joey Ponthieux
> NCI Information Systems Inc.
> NASA Langley Research Center
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