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Did I lose hours of work?
Hi guys,
I’ve been using SVMS 11.0 (with current patch) for about 6 months and love it, especially now since I got my video driver problem corrected and it doesn’t crash every 5 minutes ;^)I need an opinion on what just happened, I’ve been working on a file, (F1) and decided this morning to chunk off 30 seconds of it, render it (F2) to upload, then I planned to go back to the full file (F1) and continue editing.
I saved the full file as F1, then deleted out everything, leaving the 30 seconds I wanted, SAVED AS a completely different filename F2, rendered, uploaded, all is good there, but now the version I want (F1) with all my edits is not there. I instead have a version of F1 from early yesterday before my many hours of edits :/
Does this simple “save as” completely wipe out an original file? I have never in my life experienced a “save as” that overwrites, or deletes the original, it simply adds a second file. I’m in IT, I’ve been doing this for decades, I can’t even fathom the above scenario.
Please help
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Nevermind, I found it, please ignore. Boy that was skeery! Sorry.
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[William Mitchell] “but now the version I want (F1) with all my edits is not there. I instead have a version of F1 from early yesterday before my many hours of edits :/”
Vegas has a habit of remembering the last folder you “visited” which is not necessarily the folder you last saved your project in. (this gets me all the time) So, for example, if you if you save your project in the Project1 folder and then load some media from the Media1 folder and then descide to Save As… you project, it will get saved in the Media1 folder because it was the last folder you visited. 🙁
Search your hard drive and I’ll bet your F1.veg file is in several folders, one of which will be the latest.
~jr
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Oh I see. I never noticed that “feature” lol.
Thanks for the help John!
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I know that dreaded aching feeling in the core of your heart,
that hours of pains taking edits might have been completely lost..lol
Glad you found it.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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Yeah, this is especially bad when doing a render, as it “remembers” the directory of the last render. So I sometimes find a render from a while back within the wrong folder, and it makes me wonder if that render was supposed to be the final tweak of an edit that went to the client. Hate it.
-Jim.
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Yes, this bugs me too! When I render a project, I often can’t find the darn thing … then I remember it is in the “other” folder …. grrr.
Steve
Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidia FX 570, Vegas 10e (and 11) x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V
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Vegas maintains the list of recently used projects at the bottom of the File menu (up to 9 entries you can specify in Preferences), so you can quickly find your saves there
Vegasaur – automation plugins and tools for Sony Vegas Pro
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