Been working on a longish project. As always, I save it roughly every ten minutes... just in case. Well, I apparently had one of those just in case moments.
I start up Vegas, it says it can't load the project, asks if I want to instead load the backup. I say no thanks, knowing I always save the project as the last thing I do before walking away to do something else, so the last best copy is what I saved, not always what Vegas makes as a backup..
So instead of using the 'backup' version I go to the folder where the veg file is and tell Windows to use open with...specifying Vegas. I know this works, done it countless times.
This time Vegas comes back with can't launch Vegas, not registered. OK, I say to myself, lets locate the backup instead. I find it, it starts to load, but Vegas hangs, stalling at 1% of audio peaks loaded. Try a couple times, same issue. Have to use Task Manager to exit each time, Vegas hopelessly hung up.
So is all lost? No. Here's a trick that will load a .bak file Vegas is hanging on.
1. Use Windows Search to locate the Vegas backup file.
2.Go to command prompt, use rename command to change the file extension from .bak to .veg.
3. Exit command prompt and then use open with the doctored "backup" file you just changed the file extension on.
This will restore the project. At least it has every time I had to resort to it.
The question is why can't Vegas open its own backup or Veg file sometimes and no error is reported until you try to open the project again.
I start up Vegas, it says it can't load the project, asks if I want to instead load the backup. I say no thanks, knowing I always save the project as the last thing I do before walking away to do something else, so the last best copy is what I saved, not always what Vegas makes as a backup..
So instead of using the 'backup' version I go to the folder where the veg file is and tell Windows to use open with...specifying Vegas. I know this works, done it countless times.
This time Vegas comes back with can't launch Vegas, not registered. OK, I say to myself, lets locate the backup instead. I find it, it starts to load, but Vegas hangs, stalling at 1% of audio peaks loaded. Try a couple times, same issue. Have to use Task Manager to exit each time, Vegas hopelessly hung up.
So is all lost? No. Here's a trick that will load a .bak file Vegas is hanging on.
1. Use Windows Search to locate the Vegas backup file.
2.Go to command prompt, use rename command to change the file extension from .bak to .veg.
3. Exit command prompt and then use open with the doctored "backup" file you just changed the file extension on.
This will restore the project. At least it has every time I had to resort to it.
The question is why can't Vegas open its own backup or Veg file sometimes and no error is reported until you try to open the project again.