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Hi! I hope there's somebody that's familiar with ANIM format files. While this is addressed to EA, I'll appreciate anyone else's help too if you think you've got some info. I spent 8-9 hours working on some animated graphics in Deluxe Paint III version 3.01, and as I was saving my work for the last time I ran into a Disk Full error on my hard drive. I had Workbench active, so I started moving files to a floppy so I'd have some room. Before I got back to Dpaint, it had already resumed saving the file (maybe sensing that there was now room, or maybe somehow I hit a key that told AmigaDOS to "Retry" saving the file). So far so good. This happened a second time, except this time it waited until I hit "Retry". Fine — I wound up with about a 540k file. The end result: somehow the file got trashed. ShowAnim says there's not enough memory for bitmaps; Movie just says there isn't enough memory. (There is; I"ve got 3 megs and naturally there's less in memory than when I created the file with the paint program.) Dpaint just says the file is damaged. One ray of hope: SuperView CAN display it but there's minor garbage that pops up at the beginning and stays throughout, and the very end has major problems. If left running SuperView crashes. My main question: is there a way to somehow rescue this file? The beginning is the critical part (because it seems to be reasonably intact), although I'd love to be able to manually truncate the file to approximately the point where it's messed up without a trial-and-error go-round with a sector editor. And my secondary, but no less important, question: has this problem been looked at in later versions of Dpaint? 🙂 Thanks for any help you can think of. =Tom=