My *.veg files disappeared from VegasPro 18.0 from my Graid hard Drive

Jay wrote on 7/21/2022, 9:52 AM

I edited a 2 camera ballet video a month ago. My customer wanted me to synch audio with her intro voice. When I opened VegasPro 18.0 couldn't find any *.veg files. Couldn't reedit my video.

I went to C:\Users\Jay Bartol\AppData\Local\VEGAS Pro\18.0 and couldn't find any *.veg files.

I use an HP Z620 desktop w/ 30 GB of Ram, 2 cpus at 2 GB/sec, Win 10 (x86) OS

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xberk wrote on 7/21/2022, 10:14 AM

Search your C drive for *.veg ... if you have other drives, search them too.

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Jay wrote on 7/21/2022, 1:44 PM

I could not find any .reg files on my C:// from my editing of VegasPro 18.0 that I had made in June 22. I imported my .mp4 into VP and created a new folder and .reg file which I saved in my GRAID folder.

When I exited VP after saving the file as a .reg and _R1.reg file in my GRAID, I tried opening the _R1.reg file and received an error msg from VP, "An error occurred while loading the project file _R1.veg file by installed version (Vegas Pro, 18.0, build 527) or file may be corrupt. Please download and install the latest update of VP."

I exited VP and opened the file folder in GRAID and double clicked on today's .veg file and VP OPENED! I saved/overwrote _R1.veg and then exited the VP and closed my GRAID.

Thanks for your advice. I found a .reg file on my C:/dropbox folder. Didn't find a copy of the _R1.reg file.

Former user wrote on 7/21/2022, 5:58 PM

@Jay Get a good disk search program like Everything, free and have used it for years. It will ingest everything on connected HDD's, and then find files that were written literally a couple of seconds ago. It's really good, have to think there is some sort of overhead in it being able to detect and log new files almost instantaneously, but not noticed any problems.

The way I have often used it for missing veg files in recent projects is to search *.veg* by date, most recent files first. This will show *.veg and *.veg.bak files wherever they are, if the last save was in the temporary directory it will find it. This can be helpful with Vegas crashes, it gives you peace of mind knowing you are using the most recent project file where ever it is.

https://everything.en.softonic.com/

 

RogerS wrote on 7/21/2022, 9:06 PM

If Advanced Save exists in 18 I highly recommend using it. The "minor backups" can backup a file every few minutes automatically and then "major" every hour. Once you're done with the project you can clear away all backups. I found this very worthwhile to avoid data loss or corruption if Vegas freezes.