So recently my windows 8 froze and rejected to boot ever again. After a long day trieing to fix it I finaly gave it up and just installed it again on the same partition as the broken one - like a couple of times before. When i was restoring my files and docs from windows.old folder, I did not find the Lego creations. Then I used 'EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard' to restore them - if You read this stay as far as you can from it. It duplicated most of the files, having the seems-to-be-original one and one with '_000' added to the filename. And here comes the actual problem.

When I try to open them in LDD, i get an error message saying 'Unable to load file - Parsing of the file was aborted due to an error in the file'.

Neither LDraw reads nor winrar can't open then.

Anybody seen this before?

I would say that that as expected. You probably recovered most of the file, but not every thing.

LDD files are basically zip files containing an XML file. And for zip files every single bit is important.

If it were simple text files or even XML files you could have tried to manually edit the files to add the missing parts.

So you're out of luck.

[...] It duplicated most of the files, having the seems-to-be-original one and one with '_000' added to the filename. And here comes the actual problem.

When I try to open them in LDD, i get an error message saying 'Unable to load file - Parsing of the file was aborted due to an error in the file'

This is a stab in the dark, but there's a chance that the file appended with "_000" is another part of the file that wouldn't fit in just one cluster on the disk. You could try opening a command prompt and doing a binary join to see if it produces a complete file:

>copy /b file.lxf + file.lxf_000 file_joined.lxf

You could try opening a command prompt and doing a binary join to see if it produces a complete file:

This sounded great, but sadly did not work. Thanks for the idea anyway, I was wondering if something similar is possible, but did not know the command.

See this topic for help: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=86964

I had a similar problem and I was able to fix it using the information provided there.

See this topic for help: http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=86964

I had a similar problem and I was able to fix it using the information provided there.

Was promising, but the recover tool does not list the neither the .lxfml nor the png. Tried a few other zip repaires afterwards with no luck.

At least I've found my backups from over a year ago. More than nothing :)

You need to type the directory of the file in directly. It will work then.

Here's generally where it's located: C:\Users\somfacsonk\Documents\LEGO Creations\Models\legofile.lxf

You need to type the directory of the file in directly. It will work then.

Here's generally where it's located: C:\Users\somfacsonk\Documents\LEGO Creations\Models\legofile.lxf

Sure, tried working files to check how should it look like, but nothing shown for broken ones.