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opening.bak files
I have Sony Vegas Pro 12. I accidently deleted a project and was able to undelete a name.veg.bak file. I cannot open it. in older post it said put the file in vegas and it will open. Did not work . i got “none of the files dropped on vegas pro could be opened”
Another suggestion was to drag file on to the vegas icon. This opened vegas but a warning said “an error occurred while loading the project file” and the “file is an unsupported format” and the file did not open
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8 Replies
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You need to remove the .bak from the file name and then it should open as expected.
Once you recover it, immediately resave it under a new name. -
Did not work. Got
“an error occurred while loading the project file” and the “file is an unsupported format” and the file did not open
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Strange. That should’ve worked. Just to confirm you did rename it like myfile.veg.bak to myfile.veg, correct?
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“Strange. That should’ve worked. Just to confirm you did rename it like myfile.veg.bak to myfile.veg, correct?”
Yes
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Sorry John but you have me stumped. All I can think of is that the bak file is corrupt 🙁
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I’d recommend making sure you have visible file extensions:
https://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hide-file-name-extensions
(Google show file extensions ‘yourOS’Before you attempt to rename the file. If you rename without doing this you’ll have ‘filename.veg.veg.bak’ with ‘veg.bak’ being the actual extension.
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“I’d recommend making sure you have visible file extensions:
https://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hide-file-name-extensions
(Google show file extensions ‘yourOS’Before you attempt to rename the file. If you rename without doing this you’ll have ‘filename.veg.veg.bak’ with ‘veg.bak’ being the actual extension.”
I already do have visible file extensions
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