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Not to discredit Design Scout's glorious solution, of which partially worked for me. It basically recovered what was visible. Great for recovering what i most recently worked on, not so great for everything else. But another solution that worked 100% for me was found here: http://daxxter.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/how-to-recover-a-corrupted-ill ustrator-ai-file/
I noticed after researching this problem, there are different types of operand errors. I had the one with ((((((((((((( in it like Ben, the original poster. There are others involving fonts and other stuff. The solution in the url I provided seems to be for the font one, but I was able to fix my problem by following all steps except the last couple.
When the _recoveredFile.ai was opened in text edit and after searching for something in the error message (I used a "-24.33 456.5" that was in my error message instead of the ((((((((((( because my dislexia prevented me from getting an exact count of ('s), I had two lines with the bunch of ((((('s in them. I removed all the ((((((( from both lines, saved the file and opened back up in AI. And bingo!! 2 months of work 100% recovered
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First. Can't tell you how helpful this forum post/thread has been today. I successfully recovered two files that had "illegal operand" due to a corrupted Font, despite every Adobe tech support person writing me off – writing my files "gone".
Second. For anyone interested my "offending operator" was:
%AI3_EndEncoding TrueType'
Specifically, the context:
[/_[-Andvari-]-Regular/[-Andvari-]-Regular 0 0 0 TZ
%AI3_EndEncoding True Type
The did exactly as explained here (below, by Levitikon).
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However, my Library/ and Preferences/ were hidden...which made it frustrating because I had to find how to make them visible. Well, here's the link to explain how to do that
: http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/22/access-user-library-folder-in-os-x-lion /Cheers!
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WARNING: Coogweaver's method (a good one indeed) about ceating a new document so you can File/Place the corrupted one helps IF (and only if) your artwork is completely done on the "art board" (i.e. doc size = letter, tabloid, etc.). If you're like me and work through a lot of iterations and creative business all around...then bring it into the the "art board" well – it WILL be lost. The "workspace" is not considered by any option (even though their are 5 to choose from) during "File/Place". This seems to be because the Place feature treats an AI (.ai) file as a PDF (.pdf) which only see the art board dimension (not the entire working space of your document).
So, the lesson learned is:
a. Work on the art board (or at least move artwork of importance to it PRIOR to saving your documents)
b. If you need more room, the goto File/Document Setup/Edit Artboard to create more space that woudl be salvageable (in case of a corrupted file) – if you rely on Coogweaver's rescue op.
c. If not, then you have to use Leviticon's method (see above), because it WILL recover the entire working space
Good luck everyone!
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