help me i scrwed up...BAD

scottshackrock wrote on 8/12/2004, 8:40 PM
so i accidently saved a track, over a different track (which i thought was the same...).

in other words, i have project A and project B.
I am editing A, and accidently (instead of doing save as... "A-edits") I save it as B. Now, I B is gone.

This is a project I was working on with some friends of mine - who are paying me and aka now clients....

oh my god please tell me i didnt screw that up.

is it GONE GONE GONE??? (no, i can not piece it back to gether with the media which is still there.there are so many cuts and edits in the song that it would be rediculous to try and even figure that out, and which takes are which)....

is there certain TEMP places that I can look in?!?

oh man...

Comments

scottshackrock wrote on 8/12/2004, 8:44 PM
even the .bak is now a backup of the one i saved over it.
planders wrote on 8/12/2004, 9:48 PM
Probably not much you can do, unless you have an undelete tool like Undelete by Executive Software. That program will generally protect files you've saved over, allowing you to restore them. But of course, the tool has to be running already for it to work...
Udi wrote on 8/12/2004, 9:51 PM
You can try the vegas temp directory, look for an autosave file.

Udi
jetdv wrote on 8/13/2004, 8:39 AM
Sound like you have lost this one if even the .bak file is now the OTHER file as well. Only thing you can do is look to the future to help prevent this from happening again. Take a look at the Save Veg Wizard in Neon - it will save the project in multiple places at once. Then you could have gone to the last saved PREVIOUS version and at least recovered to that point. Otherwise, you need to carefully save and/or copy your veg files to multiple places for safekeeping.
filmy wrote on 8/13/2004, 9:18 AM
What I use is not made for NLE however when I found out about it it makes perfect sense to use it. You need to set some things up and you would need to do the back ups however provided you did do it prior to a new session you would always have the last version you worked on saved. It does work on a Network, that is what it is made for, however you don't need to be on a network to use it.

It is called TortoiseCVS and it is free. I would *highly* recomend every editor use this, or something like it, if they save various versions of their projects. Makes saving various cuts damn easy, and you can check out when the changes were made and add notes if need be.

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With TortoiseCVS you can directly check out modules, update, commit and see differences by right clicking on files and folders within Explorer. You can see the state of a file with overlays on top of the normal icons within Explorer. It even works from within the file open dialog. You can perform tagging, branching, merging and importing, and you can go directly to a browser web log (using ViewCVS or CVSWeb) on a particular file.
DGrob wrote on 8/13/2004, 9:24 AM
Do a Goggle search for "File Saver." It's a cheap program that accesses your drive and reports on the current condition of all "deleted" files. don't know if you'll have any luck when the deletion is the result of writing over, but might be worth a shot. I've used it to recover seemingly lost stuff before. Darryl
nickle wrote on 8/13/2004, 6:39 PM
If you are really lucky, you may have a system restore point to a previous time not too far distant. If you installed new software etc. and have system retore enbled windows may have created one. Check the restore points..
musicvid10 wrote on 8/14/2004, 10:49 AM
By the time I finish my final project I usually have 7-10 previous saves available to go back to if I screw up (and I do all the time).

Best prevention is SESO (Save Early, Save Often)

If they are not already overwritten, a little utility called Directory Snoop can find those erased files and sometimes recover them intact.