[Lori Jackson]

Hello Again Mike:

I most definately will take your advice and install that utility!!! I will also pass all of this information on to the one gentleman that I know had this very same issue. I’ts too late now to save his project, as his torment happened in June, and he already delivered the final DVD’s to his clients after having to re-build the entire thing. Believe me, last week I was feeling his pain, big time.
Take care and thank you for all of your help.
Lori J.

[Lori Jackson]

Hi Mike:
First, thank you so much for taking the time to respond to my issue. I followed your instructions, but at first, I could not locate the .bak file within the file folder the project was created in. So I did just a regular search for any file named .bak and came up with no results that would be connected to this file. Example: my project was named smith ceremony only and my search results did not locate any files close to this name with an extension of .bak. Took a look in the recycle bin, nothing there either. I then went online and downloaded a program that will locate and find deleted files that have been emptied from the recycle bin, did a search for any file with an extension of .bak, and there it was!!! A file named smith ceremony only.bak dated 09/17/2008. Somehow the .bak file that was associated with my .veg file was deleted. So I restored that file, opened it up in Vegas 8 and everything was there just as it was upon completion back in September when I actually finished the project. Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction in locating that .bak file. I know that those get created with each and every .veg file, but honestly I have never paid that much attention to them. This really saved me from having to start this entire project over again which was a very long, High Noon, Catholic wedding.

I guess the only thing that I do not understand at this point is why all of my editing decisions that I made from 09/01/2008 to 09/17/2008 disappeared from my regular .veg file?? This morning I did some tests where I created a short Lori_Test.veg project, added in some audio envelopes, through in some transitions and a couple titles and saved it. I then went into the file folder where the project was created, located the .bak file and purposely deleted it, and then even emptied the recycle bin. I restarted the computer, opened my .veg file and all treatments where still there, i.e.: transitions, titles, audio envelopes – unlike what happened to my wedding, where everything was gone. The most important thing is that I have my original file back and I have already rendered that baby out to DVD. I just always like to understand the “why” behind things like this.

Again, Thank you so much for your help in saving me weeks worth of re-do!!!