My .veg disappeared. Is it possible to get back?

jimingo-1 wrote on 4/11/2019, 1:11 PM

I saved a Vegas project last night. I reopened it today and put in a few more hours of work on it. I saved multiple times while working on it but the last time I tried to save it, I got an error message because my drive was full. The project I was trying to save is located on my boot drive. The reason my boot drive was full is because I was rendering another project at the time, and since this is a new computer, I haven't looked up and executed the work-around yet to get Vegas to store the temporary render files somewhere else. Anyway, I closed the project because I just saved it a few minutes prior. I cleared up some plural eyes temp files for more space and when I went to open up the project, my .Veg was gone (including the .bak file). I'm 100% sure I didn't delete it. Searching my computer I found a shortcut to my .Veg but the original file was missing so I couldn't open it. I ran file recovery software but it turned up nothing.

99 time out of 100, I save my project as a new file immediately when opening it but I didn't this time. Even so, I never would expect a .Veg and the .bak to completely disappear when closing Vegas. I also couldn't find any temporary or autosave files (the only thing I found was an error report file made at the time I closed the project). I doubt I can get this .veg file back but if there's a way, please let me know. Thanks

 

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fr0sty wrote on 4/11/2019, 1:16 PM

Check C:\Users\PUT YOUR WINDOWS USERNAME HERE\AppData\Local\VEGAS Pro\16.0. That is where your autosaves are stored.

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Systems:

Desktop

AMD Ryzen 7 1800x 8 core 16 thread at stock speed

64GB 3000mhz DDR4

Geforce RTX 3090

Windows 10

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ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo 32GB (9980HK CPU, RTX 2060 GPU, dual 4K touch screens, main one OLED HDR)

Musicvid wrote on 4/11/2019, 1:17 PM

Search your Windows/Users folder for *veg and *veg.bak files. You can do this in a Window, or with a command prompt.

Remove the .bak from the file extension to make it a usable Project.

jimingo-1 wrote on 4/11/2019, 1:34 PM

This is where it gets weird. I started the project yesterday afternoon. By the time I went to bed, I had saved multiple .veg files (1, 2, 3 and 4). I opened up 4 today and forgot to save it as 5 (I just kept editing 4). Taking your advice, I looked through all the autosaves and I found autosaves for verison 1, 2 and 3. But there's nothing for 4. It's like when Vegas closed, it deleted the .veg & .bak from my folder AND all the autosaves. It's crazy.