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[Michaela Maintz]

Dear forum members, 

my simulation (Mechanical workbench) seems to have crashed overnight and the simulation_files and simulation_files.backup somehow disappeared from my SSD. I went to restore the data with the Recuva software, and most data was found and restored back to the original file format. I still cannot open the files though and I suspect they are corrupt. I am mainly interested in the settings I have used for the simulations, less the results, because I can run the simulations again, if necessary. Can anyone help me out reading these files?

Many thanks,

Michaela

[Sampat Kumar]

Hi Michaela,
Please follow the following link that will help you to recover the corrupt file, and please let me know if you are able to open it or not.

/knowledge/forums/topic/how-to-restore-the-corrupted-project-in-ansys-workbench/
https://www.padtinc.com/2013/07/16/corrupt-ansys-mechanical-database-you-might-be-able-to-recover/

Regards,
Sampat

 

[Michaela Maintz]

Dear Sampat, 

I could find these files and I tried it the way described on the websites and I receive this error message though: 

“Import of legacy database failed.”

Maybe you know another way to open the file?