Save As Archive ... not getting back what I saved
by Doug Cooper
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Jun 21, 2008 at 7:26:56 pm
I've been using "Save As Archive" to save a few different versions of a project (30 second spot). But now, I'm loading up those archives, and not getting back what I saved. They sometimes have the wrong version of the grades, or forget stuff that I stored in the grades all together (like secondary shape animations).
I was hoping to use this mechanism to store a few different alternatives to show the client, but now they're all mangled together, and I'll be luck if I can piece together one decent version by the time they arrive.
Anyone else seen this or have a solution?
(PS - I could have managed different looks in the Grades 1-4 slots ... but as it turns out, copying a grade to a new slot doesn't copy the animation, just the current frame's settings -- so that didn't help me either).
Re: Save As Archive ... not getting back what I saved by Joseph Owens on Jun 22, 2008 at 3:08:06 pm
No, that's very unlikely to change anything.
Giving this a bit of thought, not necessarily to recover this particular project, but a workflow approach.
I hate to say it, but this one might be in the dumper.
You might consider creating entirely new projects using a different name for each. Do your core treatment, save it as a kind of master, then open the next project and "Import corrections" from the master. Everything, including all your keyframing, should make the trip. (Beware, however that this process is not 110% accurate all the time, every time.) Assuming a successful import, at that point you're free to modify, tweak, trim, etc., till the client runs out of money, and the master won't know that anything is going on with its children; autosave, archives -- irrelevant.
Be aware that autosave and archive are not designed to save a file/image of the entire project. You should only count on them to do an emergency revert inside a session, with a bit of luck. A deliberately stored project, with an APPLE-S, is the only way to guarantee (crossing my fingers) that "everything" is being written down somewhere. Are you getting an inkling of my own personal comfort level with the app's quote-unquote reliability?
Re: Save As Archive ... not getting back what I saved by Doug Cooper on Jun 27, 2008 at 4:06:27 am
Thanks for the suggestions. How does backing up the entire .colorproj file (archive as it were) work? If I copy it to another file, can I open it in Color and have it work ok, or does it get weirded out by that?
Regarding the restart of Color -- I have had situations where it was behaving strangely - like it wouldn't stick after I created a shape or I was getting weird graphics corruption, and restarting the software solved those problems.
