Pencil can't read file, prompts error warning

@Alpx Hey Eddy, sorry to hear about your issues.

If you want to send us the file please upload it to some platform like google drive, dropbox or wetransfer.com and share the link here (we can delete it once your issue is solved if that’s what you want)

We can attempt to help you recover your work partially, however depending on how the file got corrupted, some drawings might be saved but the absolute position of the drawings will not, so at least having a previous backup will help much more when things like these happen.

In this forum there’s a guide to recover files. You can follow it here as well to understand better what I’m talking about: Pencil2D Project File Corruption Prevention / Partial Recovery Guide

Either way for now:

  1. Update to use the latest version of the software. We don’t support any version under 0.6.2 anymore.
  2. When saving be very careful of not closing the software until it finishes saving. If there’s a blackout or your dog chewed the power cord, be prepared to follow that guide again.