Blackm1nd Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Hi Forum, i like the software and this forum and i've got many helpful hints from here so far. Thank you very much. Now i got an unusual question: I opened 10-15 picture files and unfortunately my machine crashed and died within the work. I had no chance to save the work. I will fix the machine and i need the picture files then. I am hoping, that PDN stores the actual files somewhere on the disc so that it's maybe possible to restore them. Is my assumption correct and when yes, where is the folder located? Many thanks in advance (and sorry for my bad english). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitenurse79 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Hi blackm1nd. Welcome to the forum Sadly once you suffer a PC crash, any work you have created has also gone too. The only hope you may have is that you have coppies of your original work on a usb or memory card that you can basically start again with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackm1nd Posted September 27, 2012 Author Share Posted September 27, 2012 Hello nitenurse79, so bad news for me. But thanks anyway for the answer and the warm welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitenurse79 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Your welcome. I'm just sorry the answer was not a happy one for you, remember next time to keep coppies elsewhere, I too have suffered PC crashes and learned the hard way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackm1nd Posted September 27, 2012 Author Share Posted September 27, 2012 Yes, i think most of us did :-) Luckily i consider myself as an experienced user (i'm coding too), so i guessed, that there is a small chance that some data is stored in temporary folders (many programs are working this way). In the meantime i found this topic: that made me not to give up my hoping At the moment, i'm fixing the machine (mainboard issues) and after that i will start it, NOT open PDN and do my best to find the files and try to restore them. I'll report when it's done successfully or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitenurse79 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 (edited) Thanks for the linkto that topic I hope it works out for you OK and I look forward to your reply back to see if your work is still there My only concern would be if it's a main board issue then would everything be lost? Edited September 27, 2012 by nitenurse79 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 You're not going to be able to recover any data from those temporary files that Paint.NET uses to store history data. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitenurse79 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 As a matter of interest Rick. What data is stored in the PDN temp files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 As a matter of interest Rick. What data is stored in the PDN temp files? You're not going to be able to recover any data from those temporary files that Paint.NET uses to store history data. Mostly bitmap diffs, e.g. which pixels were changed and what were their old values. Or it could be polygons for selection data. Or other various things that encode the previous state of what was changed. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackm1nd Posted September 28, 2012 Author Share Posted September 28, 2012 Yes, and if i had read the link i posted carefully, i had seen, that there is only history data Anyway, the machine is fixed and now i redo my work. Fortunately the work always gets better when one starts again from the beginning ;-) Thank you for your Help and please apologize that i posted in the wrong subforum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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