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Danger: It’s Easy to Overwrite Entire Project
I wanted to take away events and save the project with a new name, but i accidentally saved with the current name, thus overwriting my original project. Is there anyway to go back in time to that earlier state? (Luckily it only happened to a simple title sequence)
As always thanks so much to you guys…Johnny In Orlando
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The way to do this is to make the first change and at that point save to new name; right?
As always thanks so much to you guys…Johnny In Orlando
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I’d say the safest way to do it is save with a new name before you make ANY changes.
–Kelly
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I use the incremental Emergency Save by Edward Troxel. Setup by the user, for user-determined time intervals it will save on each interval to a new TIME coded name so I always have 5 descreet VEGGIES. It has been a life-saver for me.
Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
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[John Perez] “Is there anyway to go back in time to that earlier state?”
Vegas does save BAK files with the VEG so if you realize your mistake after the save and before the next you can get back to the previous save.
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what r u people talking about? bak is overwritten while saving the original. there is no way going back with the original file but…. 🙂
go to
C:\Users\USERNAME GOES HERE\AppData\Local\Sony\Vegas Pro\VERSION NUMBER GOES HEREyou will find there autosaves as well as restored projects – auto-made by sv after crash. there is no original name of the project but look for date modified and you are home.
saved me a lot of time many times
in internal preferences you can also set a time in miliseconds for SV to make an autosave.
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[Paul Belter] “what r u people talking about?”
A little harsh?
Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge -
I know this doesn’t help the OP but Windows needs something like Apple Time Machine.
Time Machine is part of the OS. It saves files as you work. You can go back in time and restore files anywhere from a few minutes to a few months. Right now, I can go back to Mid January. -
no offence but i don’t like things that replace my thinking processes. why the hell would i go back with anything to mid-january. i save a project, i have autosaves, i have backup copies. when i prepare new versions i make new projects. when i mistake, i go back to autosave and that is the answer to the original question – go to a folder i mentioned and look for autosaves.
by the way windows already has this time machine, it is called system restore or something like that. it makes a restoring points over time in a routine of my choice plus important system events. if i had it set to on i could actually go back to 2013 or any moment i started the system. but i am not using it. actually i prefer to strain my brain remembering to do things, so hopefully it would work more efficient when i am old 😀
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Why go back? I rarely ever do. I’ve used it once or twice to restore something I deleted like a vacation list
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