Recovering a project from Auto Save Vault

[Tom Meegan]

Hi Larry,

The Auto Save vault saves projects, not clips.

You specify how often it saves with Final Cut Pro > User Preferences.

The setting for the auto save vault are on the bottom left of the General tab. Your most recent auto save will most will be your project minus the edits you made from the last auto save.

I would duplicate (option-drag if you are going to another location on the same disk, just drag if you are going to another disk) the most recent Auto Save to the folder where you keep the projects you are working on.

Rename it.

Double click it to open it.

Final Cut Pro will likely prompt you to attempt to reconnect the off-line files. Choose to do so.

Choose “Search” and FCP will look for the files. It may not find them.

If this is so you can use “Locate” and manually search them out. Go to your scratch disk in the “Capture scratch” folder for captured files, and go to where ever you have been keeping your imported files for the other stuff.

If FCP doesn’t prompt you and opens the project with a bunch of stuff off-line, right-click (or control-click) on the off line files and choose reconnect. Work through the steps above.

I you need to figure out where your scratch disk is…

Final Cut Pro > System Settings…

Your scratch disk is the path to the right of the first “set” button.

If you don’t remember where a file is…

View > browser Items > as list

Expand the browser window so you can see the columns to the right of Name.

Right click on the dark gray title headings, just to the right of Name.

Select Show Source.

This is the path of the file when it was originally captured or imported. Use this to hunt down your media in the reconnecting process.

Tom

[Lawrence Mcdonough]

Thank You Tom.

Larry