Warning……Huge Crash on 10c

[John Power]

I have since located all the captured files (they had been captured to C drive by mistake ……My Bad) But the project .veg file has definitely gone missing and no sign of a recovery file?? Helpp

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[John Rofrano]

[John Power] “I have since located all the captured files (they had been captured to C drive by mistake ……My Bad) But the project .veg file has definitely gone missing and no sign of a recovery file?? Helpp”

I think you need better file management practices.

All of my active projects are on a single drive. Each project starts by creating a folder. All of the captured media goes into that folder (in sub-folders actually). Any other assets that I use (images, music, etc.) gets copied into that folder in the appropriate sub-folder before it’s used. My project file is created in that folder and when I backup my project or archive it when it’s done, I only have one folder to backup or archive. You need to be disciplined about organizing assets or you will quickly spin out of control.

~jr

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[Stewart Bourke]

John,

Just out of interest, if you have the same media used in a number of projects do you copy it into each project’s folder? I do this – I know it is duplication – but it means I have everything in the one directory structure…

Thanks

Stewart

[Mike Kujbida]

I do exactly what John does and yes, even if the media exists elsewhere on my drive(s), a copy of it goes into the current project folder.

[John Rofrano]

[Stewart Bourke] “Just out of interest, if you have the same media used in a number of projects do you copy it into each project’s folder? I do this – I know it is duplication – but it means I have everything in the one directory structure.”

It depends on how big the media is. For small things like music and images I definitely make copies. For larger stock media in the gigabyte range I may leave it in my stock footage folder. The point is… I have stock footage folders on a common drive where all of my stock media is so I know where it is at all times.

One great feature of Vegas is to “save and copy”. This is good for archiving. It will copy all of the media into one folder regardless of where it is sourced from.

~jr

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[Stephen Mann]

“I rebooted my system and when I opened Vegas it said project file could not be found and it was certainly right, only the folder exists and nothing is in it. Any ideas ??”

A whole folder disappearing sounds a lot like you may have some cross-linked sectors on the hard disk. Go to a cmd prompt and run chkdsk.exe. If you do have cross-linked sectors, then stop using that drive until you fix it Back up the files before you run the fix (chkdsk /f) because fixing the cross-linked sectors can effect files that were intact prior to the fix.

And, what John said – you need to rethink your workflow and file organization.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[John Power]

Thanks guys, yes I will review my practices. I usually check that my captured files are in a capture folder on the project drive. It usually defaults to this folder but seemed to go to my documents folder for some strange reason ??

Thanks for the suggestion Stephen I will check the drive and back up of course.

I usually only have about 60% of C drive full but these were large captures so filled up the drive which may have caused the crash too.
I’ve learnt the hard way. Oh well, start again 🙂

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[Al Bergstein]

I’ve not yet seen a crash with 10.c, but haven’t done a lot with it. And yes, I follow John’s idea for storing project files. After tearing my hair out with FCP ‘media mismanagement’ I’ve come to greatly appreciate the simplicity of Vegas’ ability to let you manage projects as John mentions. I dread having to do any projects on FCP anymore for this reason alone. I don’t want a database forcing me to keep my files in a specific way.

Alf