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Project File Lost
Hello,
With the project still running, I accidentally threw away the FCP project file. Not realizing this I kept working and working. I also kept on saving my work as well. FCP never prompted me to save a new file. It seems it was somehow still linked with the project file I completly threw away.
I have searched everywhere and there are no other projects around, saved as another name.
All the new work is lost. Has anyone had this problem and been able to retrieve what was lost.Thanks!
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9 Replies
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Have you looked in the trash?
How about your AUTOSAVE VAULT? That has to have backups…unless you DISABLED that. And if you did…shame.
Use SPOTLIGHT to look for the project name, or the Autosave vault.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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Yes, the trash was deleted and the auto-save mysteriously stopped working before the problem.
What I can’t figure out is why FCP kept letting me save a project that had been deleted?Thanks for your time and quick response.
Darren
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When you open FCP, it defaults to the last project that was worked on…is that not opening now? And are you SURE that you can’t find it? Because FCP could not have been working on a NON EXISTANT file…on that was thrown away. It might have saved it as some temp file name.
Time to open all the FCP projects you have and see which one works….or look for one with the latest MODIFICATION DATE.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net -
Hi Shane,
Yes, I searched all the other files with no luck, but I didn’t know about the temp files. I will check that out. Thank you!
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I don’t know IF FCP does temp files. But that would really be the only thing I can think of happening here…if the file was trashed, yet FCP was STILL working…and you saved. There has to be some file somewhere.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net -
Yes, the project kept saving the whole night, so you would think that it should be somewhere. I’ll keep searching. Thanks again!
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Go out to your desktop and use the menu to create a smart folder.
It will show shortcuts to whatever you program it for. For example, you could make it contain all files with “penguin” in the name.
Set it to show files created only within the timeframe you were editing. It will contain links to any files that were created during that time.
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Thanks Jeff,
I’ll definately try this if it happens again. I didn’t see your message in time and we had to start over. Thanks for your help!
Darren
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I had hte same thing happen. I was editing and saving all morning, and then I duplicated my sequence, for safe keeping, and the copy of the sequence was blank.
So I went back to Sequence 1,a nd it too was blank.
Reverting to any previous version was blank. And there wasn’t any SAVED version of my project.
Even though I was saving all morning long.
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