Macbook restarted and now project is lost?

Troubleshooting
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I was importing photos into Tropy when my Macbook Air restarted itself. After the restart I tried to reopen the project, but it came up with an error message about the sqlite database being damaged (?). I have the error log, but it would be too long to copy it in here.

Ok, I tried to open it again and this is the message that appears: SQLITE_CORRUPT: database disk image is malformed

Did this happen to anyone else, and how did you fix it? (Or could it be fixed?)

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Hi,
we suppose that Tropy was still writing to the project file while the restart happened. Could you upload the project file? We’ll try to fix it.

Best
Johannes

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Hi,
Apologies, just saw this. After the initial panic, I remembered that I backed up the whole manuscript folder, including the tropy project file onto my USB drive the day before. I deleted the project file from the computer and copied in the one from my USB. That did the trick, and thankfully only lost a few hours of work.

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I’m glad to hear that you found a solution!

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Hi,
I’m struggeling with the same problem on Windows but it’s not related to a shutdown. Tropy suddenly stops writing and when I resart I get the “SQLITE_CORRUPT …”. My .tpy file is stored in the cloud so I can easily restore a version which is working, but I would like to know why this happens (happened to me twice, this week).

Some stupid (?) guesses:

  • I am typing to fast
  • the .tpy is stored in the cloud
  • the .tpy is stored in the cloud an I’m turning my VPN on and off while it uploads

Thanks for your help in avance!