Danger: It’s Easy to Overwrite Entire Project

[John Perez]

Ok save to new name before ANY changes. thanks for all the ideas and insights. I just happen to be absent-minded sometimes.

As always thanks so much to you guys…Johnny In Orlando

[Bob Peterson]

I hate to say this, but this is Computer Use 100. When you finish for a day, you BACK UP your veg file. You also BACK UP any other file that you altered during the day. Perhaps, you edited your source audio file. You can then recover from this kind of error. I hate to have to redo my work.

I routinely back up both the veg and the bak file.

[Edward Troxel]

If you’ve only saved once with the mistake, the “BAK” file should still be the previous version. When saving, here’s what happens:

1. The current file is renamed to the .BAK file
2. The file is now saved as a VEG

The BAK file should always be one version behind to help recover in situations such as this.

Edward Troxel

[Maxim Vegen]

how do you find the bak file on a mac?

[Danny Hays]

I always save any changes to a new name .veg file. I searched my computer for .bak files and found none. I have autosave checked in my preferences too. So I did some experimenting with VP13. I made a .veg file and saved it to a new folder. At that time, the new folder only shows the one saved .veg file. I opened it and made some changes and used ctl/s to save it, not with a new name. Then the folder shows a .veg and a .veg.bak of that .veg file. I then opened the .veg.bak file with VP13 and it was one save behind. So Edward Troxel is correct here.