Cant seem to see content of inkscape file

Question

I worked on some design on inkscape and something weird happened. I can no longer see the contents for file when i open inkscape. All I see I blank whitespace, I don't even see the black rectangular borders I used to see before. When I look at the svg file in finder I can see the contents in the file thumbnail but once i open in inkscape I dont see anything. I tried fitting the page to the content and changing width and height of the document and nothing happened.

I am new to inkscape so this is confusing to me. Anybody have any ideas how to rectify this?

Answer 1

Open your document in Inkscape then press 5 to zoom to the page (or using the menu: View → Zoom → Zoom Page).

You should see the drawing: