Axiom File Fixer application

Eryk Aguilar said:

I've never encountered having to use the application to fix a file but we renew it every year just incase we get a corrupted file.

Back in the 1990's this tool saved a lot of files. Even with knowledge in the EDG editor this tool saved countless hours.

With the move from V7 to V8 20 years ago file corruption became far less common. It is very rare to encounter a corrupted file now. You have to weigh the expense of the application vs how often you will have a corrupted file. In my view File Fixer is not worth the cost any more.

That being said, if you have their toolbox that includes Office Importer, Title Block Manager, etc. that you use a lot it's worth keeping.

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I appreciate your feed back, thank you

FileFixer is mostly useless. I had much more luck with using generic structured storage tools(7-zip, SSview, Offvis) and fixing DGN files with these which was not possible using FileFixer or even contacting Bentley support. I still send the corrupted files just for fun to receive the standard reply to use backups(no such option to create them automatically).
So if you have a corrupt file just drop me a message and I could often recover most of it. Also Bentley is working on replacement for Edg so soon could have a tool to audit DGN files. 

DGN corruption stil happens but mostly it is lost model headers(bad error handling?) which is easy fix but somehow Microstation treats it as critical issue and doesn't even try to rebuild model index(key-in:model reindex) and Bentley support is no help either. Other issues are when part of DGN is overwritten with non-DGN contents. Not sure how it happens but seems a bad local network infrastructure. Mostly such issues are gone after upgrading local network to gigabit ethernet.

Oto said:

FileFixer is mostly useless.

It was 2010-2015 when I had axiom tools with file  fixer, it did scan and report on files before they became  corrupt, and  a few times we  had corrupt files that mstn v8i could not  open or xref anymore.. File fixer  managed for me to get them open and repair most of the  problems, so it was worth it back then.. Not so sure today  in connect ed. but  Bentley have been talking about an Edg replacement for  years I hope  we see it  in our  lifetime Otto, but  will they charge extra for it?