Emergency, hours of work lost, please help!
by Conan Stott
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Jun 15, 2008 at 3:05:33 pm
Hi there, I have been working away at my project for about 9 hours straight when my new 6000$ mac decides to crash.... I have lost all of that work. I really need help n retrieving it, Unfortunately the autosave did not have a destination setting so Im a bit stuck, please is there a way?
Re: Emergency, hours of work lost, please help! by Rafael Amador on Jun 15, 2008 at 4:01:27 pm
By default the Autosave folder is in: Documents> Final Cut Documents.
Rafael
Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17"Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17"
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.
Re: Emergency, hours of work lost, please help! by Conan Stott on Jun 15, 2008 at 4:09:35 pm
Thanks guys, managed to find the correct autosave... PHEW!!!! turns out I was looking in the wrong plae but just relieved has a default location :) thank you heaps
Re: Emergency, hours of work lost, please help! by Lars Fuchs on Jun 15, 2008 at 4:52:09 pm
I can't endorse strongly enough Chris' point of getting the habit of manually saving every few minutes. I try to do it every time I stop to think; I just automatically hit Option-Apple-S. (This saves all open projects, and I often have many open at once. Apple-S only saves the active project.)
I've been working with NLE's for almost 15 years now, and I have been stung by 'autosaves' that don't have a recent enough copy to be useful. It hasn't happened often, but once is too many, IMO.
On a related note, you may already be doing this, but I recommend creating new versions of sequences as you try different editorial ideas. At a minimum, I make a new copy of the sequence I'm working on every morning. Clients often ask me to show them the version from yesterday, the day before, last week, etc.
Re: Emergency, hours of work lost, please help! by Andrew Kimery on Jun 15, 2008 at 6:02:44 pm
Glad you found the auto-save, but not having saved in the past 9 hours?!? Major no, no man. As Lars said, save early, save often, and if it's not saved in two different places it's not saved at all. I have my projects saved on my system drive but my auto-save vault (which I think is set to save every 10 or 15 min) saves to an external drive. That way if one drive has a complete failure I still have saves on another drive. I really, really don't like repeating work so I've gotten in the habit of hitting Command+S (or Option+Command+S) every couple of minutes if not sooner.
Re: Emergency, hours of work lost, please help! by Conan Stott on Jun 16, 2008 at 7:00:29 am
Thanks guys, lesson learned beleive me. Oh and I wasn't blaming apple for my lack of saving my project... just getting a tad frustrated with some stability issues, I dont even try to use motion anymore. But all in all love the software.
Truly lesson learned and I appreciate your help, thank you guys.
