Comment 183 for bug 988601

Unfortunately that test file does not cause any problems on 32 bit XP, which is my development system. I could open it and resave it. So, in order for me to figure this out you are going to have to narrow it down a bit more on the problem system.

Let's start with "leads on my Windows 7 machine with 8 GB ram to an Emergency Save". Please list every step you took until
the emergency save.

1. start Inkscape (please note which tools were open on the right side, like "Fill and Stroke", "Align" and so forth)
2. open the svg
3. ???

That SVG file is unusual for the following reasons:

1. There are guides
2. There is a grid
3. The only objects drawn are outside the page.

When I saved it to EMF the guides and grid disappeared, of course, since EMF does not support those. Does turning off 1 and 2 resolve the issue on your machine? If it does the issue is probably not in the code I work on, it may just be that there was a transitory bug in one of those functions that happened to be present when I built this version. If changing the position from outside to inside the page makes the emergency save go away, then it probably is in my code.