Possible to bring back undo?

JDeGraff wrote on 7/19/2002, 11:42 AM

I'm editing a series of training videos. When complete with one, I was deleting everything except the opening titles and music bed, resaving as the next in the series, then continuing on with the edits for that lesson. Unfortunately, I forgot to resave my last one, didn't realise until the final save, saved it as the correct one, then closed the program in disgust at myself. Ooops. "I've just made a tactical error, haven't I?" (name the movie for bonus points)

I *might* have been able to just lay down on the "undo" keys and get back to the starting point and save my Lesson 3. I don't suppose there's a way to get back the undo list in the edited Lesson 4 and undo all the changes to get my Lesson 3 back, is there? Luckily, Lesson 3 isn't terribly long, but I'd rather not have to re-do it if possible....

Best,
Jesse

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 7/19/2002, 1:57 PM

You can't unring a bell.

SonyDennis wrote on 7/19/2002, 2:36 PM

No, you can't restore Undo's from a previous session, but do look for the .veg.bak files that might have been saved if the "create project file backups" general preference was on (it is by default). I think one of these gets made each time you save.
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JDeGraff wrote on 7/19/2002, 2:38 PM

That's pretty much what I'm thinking, but have to ask :)

JDeGraff wrote on 7/19/2002, 2:39 PM

I'll see what I can find....I was saving quite often though, so that probably got overwritten?

BillyBoy wrote on 7/19/2002, 6:26 PM

What you may want to try next time in addition to the automatic backup is get in the habit of making generational backups on a regular basis and then name them myfile-a, myfile-b, myfile-c and so on. That way if you do something dumb or you suffer some kind of crash that corrupts a file at least you only lose one generation of your work.