Just Lost My Entire Project

DTJB wrote on 12/9/2019, 1:27 AM

Working on a video in Movie Studio 16; I use Win 10 on a Dell Inspiron 5577 by the way. Booted the software up and I get a notification that there's an update I should install. I go ahead and when the setup process is done, my system says it can't find the update. I ignore it and start editing.

After getting a decent amount of work done, I save one last time and decide to watch my project on the software to see how things are coming along. I stop playback to see if I need to correct something, then start playing the video from where I left off and the playback immediately freezes and the software crashes and shuts down. I open the software to see if I can fix anything. I'm greeted with a message asking if I would like to auto recover the project and I decline because I figured, since I saved the project numerous times while working on it, I can just open the file myself and I'll start back where I last saved; software then reminds me to use auto-save and manually save often.

When I open my video file, my timeline is completely blank and the file shows that the last time it was modified was the exact moment I restarted the software after it crashed. I can understand how this would be my fault by not choosing to auto recover the project, but it still annoys me that this issue happened at all. Is there a way to recovery my project without starting from scratch? Anyway I can prevent this from happening again?

Oh, and I was able to install the update after restarting the software.

Comments

j-v wrote on 12/9/2019, 3:51 AM

Try to look at your normal place where you store a project after a "name".vf.bak.
That is an older version of the project you used. You can rename such a .bak file to "name".vf and try to open it.

Use also in VMS 16 the "advanced save utility"

DTJB wrote on 12/9/2019, 9:54 AM

I was able to find a backup file, but even after removing the .bak from the file name, I still wasn't able to recover my project. I also looked for the Advanced Save option but couldn't find it; probably because I don't have the Platinum version of Movie Studio 16, just the standard version. Would you recommend I upgrade?

Not a total loss, I was still kinda early in the editing process so I don't have to backtrack too much. I'll just do a better job of covering my tracks in case it happens again.

j-v wrote on 12/9/2019, 10:59 AM

Would you recommend I upgrade?

Yess, it has much more possibilities and settings. You can do a free trial of it for 30 days.

set wrote on 12/9/2019, 9:49 PM

For the future, do manual save-as, at least you have 2 separate project file.

or more further, save as backup 1, backup 2, backup 3.

Vegas project files are small size files, so it's okay to have multiple files, saved at certain points.

DTJB wrote on 12/10/2019, 12:06 AM

I'll definitely give that free trial a shot and having more than one project file came to mind when I'm ready to start editing again. Thanks guys.