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HELP!!!! Is there any way???
Pretty sure I just lost a whole day’s work.
I work from a project on my clients fw drive, and make two back ups at the end of my session to two separate hd’s in my computer.
Apparently, this morning I opened FCP and inadvertently worked all day on the project in my backup folder, and then, at the end of my session, replaced my full day’s work with the project on my clients drive, thus erasing a full days work.
Can a mac file that’s copied over be retrieved in any way????
Please tell me there is some magic software that can do this….
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When a file on any computer is deleted it is still technically there its just kinda ignored, however once that sector of the hard drive is overwritten by a new file, the old file is then completely gone (or at least extremely difficult to get to).
You can try Data RescueX but with the file being over written I honestly don’t think you will get anything.
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Have you tried Time Machine?
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Stu,
From FCP, open File — Restore Project, and look in the drop-down menu to see what versions are stored in your auto save vault. It’s possible you might be able to go back in time, if so, you’d better do a “save as” with yesterday’s dayte, to insure that you don’t write over the project you worked on today.
Let me know if this worked please…
David
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Just read up on it, don’t think it will work.
This is a freakin’ nightmare, maybe the stupidest thing I have ever done. Going out on the ledge now…
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No it didn’t. My day’s work never existed in this version of the project.
Only hope is some trick in the OS.
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Threre’s no auto save version of this at all? I’m surprised. Did you switch it off because it’s on by default.
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There is an autosave, but it is not what I need – I accidentally overwrote my most recent version of the project with an older version.
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Stu- What about the next most recent version of the CORRECT project from autosave? Whatever timeframe you had set in your preferences the project you want will be there. Launch it and re-do the things that you did after the last good auto-save and get on with it. Get out of denial and fix it!
Jerry
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Jerry, I’m not in denial – the problem is that the CORRECT project is COMPLETELY GONE. I accidentally overwrote it with an earlier version of a project with the identical name. In both my backup locations. Denial has nothing to do with it – once you overwrite file A with file B, if both files have the same name, file A is toast, obliterated. In this case, file B happened to be 8 hours younger than file A.
As I now understand, my raid – which contained my active project file – crashed, and when I brought it back with Disc Warrior and reopened FCP, I inadvertently opened the backup project file on my HD, worked on it all day without realizing I should have been working on the project file located on the raid, and at the end of the day in my usual backup procedure, copied the project file from the raid into my backup HD folders, inadvertently replacing the project I’d been working on all day with one of the identical name that hadn’t been touched since around 10 a.m.
So, if you know how to raise the dead, so to speak, let’s hear it. Otherwise, a little compassion might be nice, seeing as I just accidentally trashed a day of work and was looking for help, not attitude from someone who didn’t read the thread carefully.
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