VF File Vansished

Kevin-Cutshall wrote on 4/23/2025, 4:24 PM

This has never happened to me before. I was in the middle of editing, and all of a sudden my monitor went out for a few seconds. When it came back, Movie Studio 15 had an error, saying the object had been lost or something like that. I hit okay and the program closed. But the .vf file was no longer in the folder I was working from, nor is it in the recycling bin. All I have is the .bak and .tmp file. Does anyone know what happened? Better yet, does anyone know how I can continue working on the project? I stand to lose about 7 hours of work. Thanks.

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EricLNZ wrote on 4/23/2025, 5:23 PM

Rename the 'vf.tmp' file suffix to just 'vf' and try opening that. If that doesn't work or help try altering the 'vf.bak' file to just 'vf'.

Hopefully the tmp file is your project at time of crashing. The bak file was created at your last save but won't contain most recent edit actions.

john_dennis wrote on 4/23/2025, 5:25 PM

No one here should speculate on what happened.

The best approach now is to copy the files NES Worst.vf.bak and NES Worst.vf.tmp to a different safe location as a precaution. Then, try opening the NES Worst.vf.tmp and/or the NES Worst.vf.bak files in Vegas. If either file is opened successfully, immediately save the project with a new file name and go on with your life.

I plan to forget we had this conversation.