[Solved] Error loading board file, Expecting "locked, placed,

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Hello,
I am trying to open a PCB file that was saved immediately prior to my laptop doing a Windows update. The error is the following: Capture4

I opened the file in notepad and these are the last lines of the file:

    (fp_line (start -1 0.625) (end -1 -0.625) (layer F.Fab) (width 0.1))
(fp_line (start -1 -0.625) (end 1 -0.625) (layer F.Fab) (width 0.1))
(fp_line (start 1 -0.625) (end 1 0.625) (layer F.Fab) (width 0.1))
(fp_line (start 1 0.625) (end -1 0.625) (layer F.Fab) (width 0.1))
(fp_line (start -0.227064 -0.735) (end 0.227064 -0.735) (layer F.SilkS) (width 0.12))
(fp_line (start -0.227064 0.735) (end 0.227064 0.735) (layer F.SilkS) (width 0.12))
(fp_line (start -1.68 0.95) (end -1.68 -0.95) (layer F.CrtYd) (width 0.05))
(fp_line (start -1.68 -0.95) (end 1.68 -0.95) (layer F.CrtYd) (width 0.05))
(fp_li

(The last line is line 18558).

This is my version info:

Application: KiCad
 Version: (5.1.10)-1, release build
  Libraries:
     wxWidgets 3.0.5
     libcurl/7.71.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1g (Schannel) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.3.0 libpsl/0.21.0 
 (+libidn2/2.3.0) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.41.0
 Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
 Build Info:
     wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
      Boost: 1.73.0
     OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
     Curl: 7.71.0
     Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 with C++ ABI 1014

 Build settings:
     USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
     USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
     KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
     KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
     KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
     KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
     KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
     KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
     BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
     KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
     KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
     KICAD_SPICE=ON

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks

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I have resolved my issue, the .kicad_picb-bak file seemed to not get corrupted so I was able to retrieve the board by removing “-bak” from the extension. Still unsure what caused the problem in the first place…

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