[Gimp-user] xcf file corrupt?

[curseofdark <forums gimpusers com>]

> On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:16:19 +0200, curseofdark wrote:

> > I'm using 2.6.11 on windows 7, and GIMP closed because of a computer crash not a program error, sorry I 
> > wasn't more specific! The computer crashed in the middle of saving the image

> This is the problem - if the machine crashed while the file was being
> written, it's possible that only a small amount of data reached the disk.
> Since the metadata (file name, size etc.) is updated by the OS
> independently, the file still looks like it has the old size, but in
> reality, most of that space is empty or garbage.
Alright thanks, guess I'll just screen capture the thumbnail and start over from there x.x

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