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3 May 2024 12:12:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: recovering from a power outage  
From: clipka
Date: 2 Jun 2017 11:11:30
Message: <59318022$1@news.povray.org>
Am 02.06.2017 um 00:20 schrieb omniverse:

> However, I thought maybe I could remove the last portion of the state file and
> still be able to continue a render that way. Idea being that if all it does is
> append each render block info, and the last one was incomplete or corrupt, maybe
> deleting back to the last complete good block would let it be usable again.
> 
> Well, no good. At least if simply editing in Notepad. Yet it is obvious, or so I
> believe, where the blocks seem to begin and end. This is something like the end
> of a good state file:

Notepad is not a good choice to try this. The data is binary, and I'd be
surprised if Notepad kept any binary data intact.


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