Saz File Not Opening

[Raph]

Hi,

I lost my data after recovering the data when I'm opening the saz file it shows me this error. "The selected file is not a Fiddler-generated .SAZ archive of Web Sessions."  Picture attached. A quick response will be highly appreciated 

Regards,
Raph

[Raph]

Hey, Eric Lawrence or Nick Iliev Need your help

[Nick Iliev]

Can you elaborate more on how was the data lost and what was the recovery mechanism? If possible, you can also send us the corrupted SAZ file privately (use nikolay. iliev at progress.com).

[Raph]

It was deleted from my hard-drive so I use recovery software to recover my lost data, when it completed most of my SAZ files aren't opening by fiddler but I can open few of them 

[Nick Iliev]

The Fiddler SAZ files are actually ZIP archives with a specific file order (refer to this article for details http://fiddler.wikidot.com/saz-files )

So you should be able to change the file extension to *.zip and then try to open the archive with any tool that supports ZIP if you fail to open the ZIP archive, that would indicate that you still have critical file data that was not recovered. Suppose you, however, open the archive successfully. In that case, you should see a folder that contains a list of the captured sessions (so you should be able to recover at least these sessions that are not entirely corrupted/missing critical data).

 

[Raph]

I tried to convert that saz file into zip file and it is not opening by tool that supports ZIP, so in that case there is no remedy for recovering it.

[Nick Iliev]

You could try to recover the ZIP file through some advanced ZIP recovery tools.

As a side note, the new Fiddler Everywhere has a cloud save functionality which apart from its collaboration capabilities, can protect your data in similar cases.