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PP crashed, where does my media etc go now?
Hi there,
SO I had a crash today… first one. Had to save a copy elsewhere. Which I did in a back up drive but it only saved the actual project file by the looks… I want to continue editing with this save but my question is-
Where do all the other files such as renders and Auto saves go now? Do they go in the original project?
I’m quite confused…
Do I need to do anything else?
I have read that I need to do this after a crash-
1. Trash Preferences
2. Repair Permissions
3. Delete Preview files and Data cacheDo I need to do this as well?
mmm much to learn….
thanks for your help
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Learning on the go here, (its quite hard to search for this online!)
I can see that I can run off the saved copy and as I re-render the Original file folder is growing… so to me I am thinking the project still holds its original file structure and works in there and is LINKED to the project file back up copy…
So I think I could probably drag the back up copy back into the original folder with a new name perhaps?
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Hi Dale,
Perhaps you’re thinking too hard about it. When I start a new editing job, I create a Folder on the video drive. Inside that folder is where I save the actual Project, and my video assets and such also go in that folder (I use sub-folders to keep things neat).
If at some point I want to make another copy, perhaps to try some changes without trashing the existing work, I will use “Save As” instead of “Save” and I can then create multiple versions, backups, whatever. But all “Project” versions get saved in the same master folder and I don’t even think about where background renders and such are going, they know what to do and it all stays in the same folder and I don’t think about it.
If I have a crash and Premiere wants to create a new version, or I manually go to the “Auto-Save” folder to open a backup version, I then do a “Save As” and create a new project name for current version. Again, same folder.
When I’ve delivered a job and customer signs off on it and I have no use for the material any more (have archived a master copy if need be), I just DELETE the ONE folder and everything is gone, nice and clean. Also a good idea to clean the Media Cache once in a while, under Edit > Prefs.
There’s more advanced options, if you want to use separate physical drives for Scratch and such and you can set that up if you want, but the KISS method has been working for me for 10+ years in Premiere.
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
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HI Jeff,
Yeah thanks for this. I do get paranoid!
I just wasnt sure what happened when I had the crash and it made a copy of just the project file. I needed to see where everything else would go after that… sure enough it goes in the original folders I set up just as you have written about.
Is it important to ‘trash’ preferences, repair permissions and delete preview files/data cache after a crash?
I dont even know how to do that to be honest but it would be good to know…
thanks again
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Hi Dale,
There’s plenty of folks that know a lot more about the under-the-hood stuff than I do, but like I said, after a crash I just “Save As” and keep on working, end of story. Not sure if you’re on PC or Mac, but no Prefs-trashing or anything like that, unless software is giving you grief of some sort, just business as usual
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers -
Ok, thanks Jeff… yeah i worked all day yesterday and whilst I had one clip that took forever to render and a strange red screen come up it still ended up all ok… So I’ll just keep on going.
Thanks again…
dale
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