I bet that was really aggravating...D:

>____<

ctrl + s FURIOUSLY !!!!!!!

OH YES
somtimes even this method can't help you =___=

FUCK I AM SO SORRY ;__; god nobody deserves this shit

Thats true x) but nah, fuck it, we are alright now, and the picture is almost done, NO MATTER WHAT. XD

>.<;;;; I have felt this pain far too many times. ;_; Though every time I had to re-do it (after pulling all my fur out and cussing a zillion times over) it usually does end up better than the first time...still...ICK!

and thats the only one good side of this situation, yes. =__=

Is that a bug or something? I've seen it happen many times to other artists, but I mean is it like a bad save? or just when the program crashes? :s

sometimes it will crash if the file is really big and you're putting in like, a texture or something! whenever i put big textures over big pictures sai will start going really slow and act like it will crash

I think it comes from it messing up/crashing while trying to save, and then the file gets corrupted from that. :<

It seems to crash with file sizes and such DURING the save process sometimes, and even if you saved previously it often corrupts the original file. XD! Sometimes back up is required! Really though, it tends to only happen when it's a HUGE file (like a shit tone of layers).

There can be different reasons of this problem. First one is the program itself, that crushes. Second - the problem of the Windows, if it's "improperly turned off".

Yeah, i'm thinking it was a bad save that didn't affect anything until it got saved over twice

i've had large sai files just refuse to work, or be super slow ..yikes never seen or know that.

Yeah, this is our problem too - SAI have different versions, and some of it, old versions mostly, can be very slow with big files... You can't do anything to fix it, too.

ohh that would explain a few things ..bugger

http://1drv.ms/1FAiQ6y

You're welcome.

An autosaver? That won't help I don't think, pretty sure this happens from file corruption during saving, not from lack of saving.

Exactly.

It won't help, because we got this problem in the process of saving, not because of its absence. And not because we did it too seldom or too slow.

darn

Ah man, such a bummer, I save two copies of everything because my computer tends to crash xD I save like, every 10 minutes and alternate between which file I save to, so if a file ever corrupts I'll lose 20 minutes of work max. *knocks on wood anyways*

I think you are a very clever artist! Doubled copies is the only way of living now xD

"Previous Versions" in Windows 7 usually comes in handy for stuff like that.

You should do YCHs like this eh !
This same bug seems to appear really frequently, i wonder if anybody did a "automatic save" function on SAI :/

The problem is that saving in SAI can end like this - automatical or not - it saves your file, but no information or layers can be found when you will open it... =____=

>,,,,<

Does your Sai randomly crash/especially when you click around while saving? That's my issue sometimes. -_-

YES! THIS <<<<<

Sai, like any editing/art program is very demanding on your Ram and a little on your CPU. The less ram you have the more likely it is to do this. I have 8gb Crucial Ballistix DDR 3 RAM and I work with major files in sai. Sai can take up to 4gb 'Max' of your ram and if the program tries to exceed this limit it will freeze up. And when it does, engaging any action in sai will try and push that limit and results in the program crashing.

Read my response to Lingrimm to understand this better

gosh that sucks. I never have sai crash on me, sometimes itll freeze and do the windows spinny thing but I always tell it 'wait for program to respond' and it recovers, i also ctrl+S constantly xD

yea, sometimes that freezing can be healed like that, but this problem is just so strange, I can't find any way of solving it X___x

well, luckilly you can replace the program easily and just import your swatches, brushes and textures into a new copy of SAI.

thats true! I wonder when the new 2.0 version of SAI will be available for purchase x)
I'm going to buy it finally, and maybe it will be much better.

Thats why i always save to dropbox, it saves old versions for recovery : D

Really? We need to use it now too <___<

Yeah, when you save to dropbox, and its updated, it saves it as a "point in time", if your file is erased mistakenly or gets corrupted, you go to your dropbox homepage and click on the little garbage can icon, and you can see erased files, also if the file is still there and corrupted, you can click it on the homepage and click on "previus versions", and youll be able to download it again from any time it updated, its pretty handy, specially for someone like me who lives in a place with constant powerouts xD

I've definitely had stuff like this happen before, luckily I tend to try to have multiple saves so I can recover something, but it can suck so bad. Sorry you had to deal with this.

Sometimes I end up having to save my files in Sai as .psd and I haven't had a corruption issue when saving as such. Additionally, the file saves a TON faster as a .psd than a .sai which is really nice when dealing with large files (like <10 seconds versus a minute+). The downside being I cannot save anything other than a .psd after opening one without restarting the program (it gives a "failed to save canvas" error for anything else) so I have to take the file into another program that can open .psd files to convert it to a file type for sending to commissioners/posting online.

.psd files can be an option here, thanks for advice!

Такая жиза... Благо, у меня автосейв на подсознательном уровне уже. За последний месяц раза 2 вырубался ноут. Я в ужасе, чуть ли не в слезах запускаю его, запускаю саи с почтидорисованной работой... И АЛЛИЛУЯ, ВСЁ НА МЕСТЕ. Не знаю где, когда и как, но успеваю всё сохранять. |D
А ещё могу предложить этот скрипт. Не пользовалась, но мб будет полезным http://irishwolven.deviantart.com/j.....File-517418288

My advice for those who can afford it is get the 1TB dropbox deal and never worry again! If a file becomes corrupt I can restore it every time ^w^

A lot of people tell us so, so we should try this out, I think ^^

uuuuuuuuuuhhhhh, its ok, hope things get back on track.......Please keep up the good work! I must see more of this amazing world!!!!

thank you! %)

Sucks.

i've had every art programme i've used crash on me at some point (Photoshop, Painter, Krita, PaintshopPro, Gimp, MyPaint, etc) - but all of them had auto saves so i'd usually only lose 10 minutes or so of work. i've been thinking of trying out SAI for some inking, but does it not have autosave - or was this file from an autosave? Anyhoo autosaves are not infallible. So i learned to manually save every 20-30 mins -less sometime - save when you've just done something that where you think "ooo, that looks good!" - so save it!

And not as writing over a previous file, just in case the save does this! i save with a title, date, and version : "Addled Anaconda - 05 20 15 C" - then every few days erases un-need saves. This has the advantage of 20-20 hindsight : "i think i liked that green sky i did a few days ago better than this one..." you can fetch it back and still have all your current work to go with it...

No, the problem was just that we saved this file, but something went wrong, and it crushed ... Now it looks like it looks - green and close to the abstraction art xD
We think that the only way is to save several alternate versions of the same picture, again and again.

i crie every time

From my experience, doing something all over again even in defeat always proves better results. Better than giving up.

Of course! Thats why we never gave up on such things.

:V

Do this to everything one does digitally, may it be writing, drawing, editing, doesn't matter, just spam that save button, or CTRL/CMD + S