Without changing anything or moving files, suddenly I can’t open files I was working on an hour ago, and any new files I save and close also can’t be reopened. Error message says it can’t find the linked file but nothing has been moved. Any help would be appreciated, I don’t know much about this so…

https://forums.synfig.org/search?q=can%E2%80%99t%20find%20linked%20file [image] Can't find linked file Synfig related help I am getting the following error when I try to open my file and the file is where it has always been. It started when I tried to open the animation o…

(btw what a weird ‘relative’ path synfig shows – or stored?…)

Thanks—I did see that, but I’m afraid I don’t know how it can help me; I may just not understand enough. I can’t save the file in a different format because I can’t open it; if I rename the file as just .sif then I get a different error message if I try to open it. I also hope to figure out what’s h…

Renaming it to .sif won’t solve it. To solve this strange problem, you need to decompress the sifz and manually edit the xml file… As you are a Windows user, please take a look: Synfig immediately crashes, no message What version of synfig version are you using? 1.2.2 or 1.3.16?

version 1.2.2 and i dont know how to edit it

So, I tried the directions in the link – though I’m not quite sure which file I should be trying to uncompress, the one I’m working on or the one that it says it can’t find the link to? If the former, the site said it couldn’t recognise the file type; the latter, it worked and I was able to rename i…

It’s not that trivial, and sorry I didn’t explain you properly. I’m not a native speaker, so I avoid type too much :slight_smile: Your .sifz file (“3.sifz”) points to/links to another .sifz file (“backgroundbooth.sifz”). Somehow, it stores the wrong relative path to that linked file. You said you d…

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