# Cant open max file! Help!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-open-max-file-help/60306>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [August 8, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-open-max-file-help/60306 "2004-08-08T21:15:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![guitarplayer08](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4bbf92/32.png) [@guitarplayer08](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/guitarplayer08)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-open-max-file-help/60306/1 "2004-08-08T21:15:43Z")

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Arrggghh!!! I was modeling a car and i was messing around with the meshsmooth irretations and i set it to 5. I guess my computer cant really take it and it got reseted by itself (900 MHz with 256 MB RAM)

Do anyone here use 3ds max and can help me set it back to 0. Please help! i’ve been working on this project for a couple days

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-open-max-file-help/60306/2 "2004-08-08T22:13:41Z")

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> [@guitarplayer08](#):
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> Arrggghh!!! I was modeling a car and i was messing around with the meshsmooth irretations and i set it to 5. I guess my computer cant really take it and it got reseted by itself (900 MHz with 256 MB RAM)
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> Do anyone here use 3ds max and can help me set it back to 0. Please help! i’ve been working on this project for a couple days

Did it save over your file? You should just be able to load up your saved file. Max will auto-restore and open up the restored version instead of your saved version. Unless you saved over it then Max shouldn’t have changed it.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 1:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-open-max-file-help/60306/3 "2004-08-09T01:40:29Z")

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no when i open it the mesh irretation just eat up most of my ram

but anyway some guy on cgtalks tell me to merge it in to a new scene and it works thanks 4 the help

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-open-max-file-help/60306/4 "2004-08-11T18:01:24Z")

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> [@guitarplayer08](#):
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> Arrggghh!!! I was modeling a car and i was messing around with the meshsmooth irretations and i set it to 5. I guess my computer cant really take it and it got reseted by itself (900 MHz with 256 MB RAM)
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> Do anyone here use 3ds max and can help me set it back to 0. Please help! i’ve been working on this project for a couple days

Haha, do you have any idea of the ram 5 meshsmooth iterations would take? Your file is dead and gone.