Re: yikes has this happened to anyone ?

[arty gold] "what i've been doing is making a duplicate copy of the project file for safety...but i suppose that's not doing any good?"

Arty,

That's exactly what you need to be doing. Doing a "save as" gets more people into trouble than you know, because invariably they forget which version is which.

Here are my security measures for FCP projects and data, not media:

1. I save every FCP project file to a single directory on the system drive.

2. I copy that directory to a thumb drive, to a second drive on my computer, and to another computer across the network every week.

3. And, I now use Time Machine as the ultimate mindless backup of all data.

4. I clone my system drive using Carbon Copy Cloner every time before installing an update.


David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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