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hours of work gone? can file be retrieved?
Hi everyone!
I’m pretty sure I know the answer to this question but, for my daughter’s sake, I’ll try asking anyway in hopes that one of you out there might come up with a miraculous answer.
Yesterday, my daughter put about 3 hours of work into a video that she’s been working on. When I told her it was time for bed she was in a rush and instead of saving that portion of her file she clicked on “don’t save changes” instead of “save”. Oh, the tears she shed! It broke my heart into a million pieces. 🙁
Please, if anyone out there knows any way at all to retrieve this file, let us know?
Thank you so very much,
Toni
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Toni, Vegas autosaves periodically so there’s a chance that at least some of her work can be recovered.
Look in the folder where the project file is stored for one that has a .bak extension (e.g. daughter.veg.bak).
Rename it to daughter-new.veg and try opening it.
If you’re running one of the Movie Studio versions, I think this will work there too but the extension will be different (.vms.bak?).
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Unfortunately, there is no way to retrieve what is not saved. Fortunately, the hardest part about being creative is coming up with good ideas. Since her ideas are still in her head, it almost like being saved (except it needs to be created again)
Teach your daughter to use Ctrl+S early and often! 😉
~jr
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John, because of your experience, you’re usually right but I sure hope this is one time when I am 🙂
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[Mike Kujbida] “If you’re running one of the Movie Studio versions, I think this will work there too but the extension will be different (.vms.bak?).”
Actually Movie Studio is the old Video factory so the project extension would be .vf and .vf.bak respectively.
This is a good point. The reason I didn’t mention it be because I assume that it only auto-saves when it has a project name to save. If the project was never saved, it might not but if it was saved at least once it should have a .vf.bak file. I hope you are right Mike.
~jr
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Thank you, John and Mike.
Unfortunately, the .bak file that was in the folder was one from her previous days work (which she had already saved properly) and not her work from last night so I was unable to retrieve it.
When she started getting heavily into creating media I did tell her to adopt a new mantra: “Save, save, save, and then save again and again and again”. I think we’ve probably all made the “I forgot to save…OMG!…mistake” at one time or another and I guess ultimately it has to happen to us all in order for us to learn the importance of it.
Still, it was awful to see her crying for a solid 1/2hr last night (she’s only 10yrs old, poor thing) so I thought I’d try my best to pick your brains here just in case there was a miracle that could be performed.
Thanks very much to the both of you. Hopefully that mantra I taught her will really MEAN something to her now.
Toni (typical mom who dies inside when little daughter sheds crocodile tears)
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Yes, John, it did have a .vf.bak file and it was saved once. But, still, even then when I renamed it and opened it up it was only a copy of her previously saved file and didn’t include any of her 3 hours of additional work on the file. 🙁
And, yes, she is using Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD v9.
Toni
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Sorry we couldn’t be of more help but sometimes it takes a hard lesson to remember these things. We’ve all been there.
~jr
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Just out of curiousity, how often does vegas write to:
C:\Users\[userName]\AppData\Local\Sony\Vegas Pro\10.0 !?!?!?I tried renaming (eg)
00001128.autosave.veg.bakto
00001128.autosave.vegand was able to open it with Vegas 10c.
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I’m not sure what the frequency is for writing the backup file but you certainly need to rename it to use it.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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