{"id":170359,"date":"2023-05-25T07:29:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T07:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/i-got-i-o-error-when-reading-design-error-message-when-opening-an-aedt-project-with-hfss-3d-layout-designs-after-a-system-crash-how-should-i-proceed-to-recover-my-project\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:34:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:34:11","slug":"i-got-i-o-error-when-reading-design-error-message-when-opening-an-aedt-project-with-hfss-3d-layout-designs-after-a-system-crash-how-should-i-proceed-to-recover-my-project","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/i-got-i-o-error-when-reading-design-error-message-when-opening-an-aedt-project-with-hfss-3d-layout-designs-after-a-system-crash-how-should-i-proceed-to-recover-my-project\/","title":{"rendered":"I got &#8220;I\/O error when reading design&#8221; error message when opening an AEDT project with HFSS 3D Layout designs after a system crash. How should I proceed to recover my project?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the contents of the aedb folder contain an auto-saved version (i.e. a bunch of files with a trailing &#8216;+&#8217; character), you may be able to recover that by doing the following:  1) copy model_name.aedt to an adjacent file named model_name.aedt.auto 2) in the aedb folder, open the .config+ file and copy the LastUpdateTimeStamp id (i.e. LastUpdateTimeStamp=1491431289) 3) open the new model_name.aedt.auto file and replace the LastUpdateTimeStamp to match what was in the .config+ file.  After this, when you open the aedt file, Desktop will prompt you about autosave.  Choose the replace option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-170359","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-19-2","topic-tag-electromagnetics-electronics","topic-tag-general","topic-tag-general-hfss","topic-tag-hfss","topic-tag-hfss-3d-layout","topic-tag-pcbs-packages","topic-tag-workflow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["05-25-2023  20:20:01"],"_bbp_forum_id":["153856"],"_bbp_author_ip":["209.182.204.162"],"_btv_view_count":["91346"],"siebel_km_number":["2050259"],"product_version":["19.2"],"km_published_date":["2017-05-30T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Electromagnetics & Electronics"],"application_name":["HFSS"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/170359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/170359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}