Does your DAW software have an auto-backup feature?

It sucks to learn these things the hard way. I learned a long time ago to:

1) Always 'save as' a new version of the file as often as possible. Every time i sit down for a new session, new file. Major changes to your project, save as to make a new file.

2) Copy your whole project folder to a new physical drive occasionally to create a 'safety net' version of in progress projects. even if you lose your whole projects/media drive, you still have the safety net backup.

haven't lost a project since.

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Yeah, happened to me a few years ago and I was pissed. I learned my lesson - always save a new version after doing anything important. I do this with all important work, not just music productions. If it's a massive production that I've worked really hard on I may even back up the entire project folder.

Can you recover it after it's already been corrupted? Not likely. You could try something like Active Undelete but usually those things aren't too helpful.

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Ya it's basically gone. I was basically slamming my desk for minutes and screaming. I don't get what happened, I was opening up Reaktor then Cubase just froze up...dissapeared and thats that.

Tried loading it up I was like god damnit, thank god I didn't do anything that important in that sessions, then bam, error.

No backup either, well thats something new to learn from.

Whenever I make a change I save a new copy.

This is the way I name stuff:
Name, then something you just worked on (then the order in which it was saved)

So,
Airgate Bass (14) means the track is called 'Airgate' and I was working on the bassline, plus it's the 14th version I saved.

Works out quite well as the files are tiny and you can always go back if you need to, plus you know what you just worked on. I just had to backtrack 4 saves because I stuffed something up and couldn't fix it.

Backing up project folders is a smart thing to do too.

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Never happened to me, apart from the time my HD died once - in retrospect it was a good thing since most of those files were awful anyway.

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Originally posted by DJFreaq ...people don't have descriptive subjects for their threads.

It usually attracts more people.


What a tactic.

Totally

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[i][b]O 2) Copy your whole project folder to a new physical drive occasionally to create a 'safety net' version of in progress projects. even if you lose your whole projects/media drive, you still have the safety net backup. .

Good advise. Doubt many of us only have 1 drive and it only takes seconds to do. If you think losing one project is bad imagine losing everything!

Change to Ableton :P... Sorry Cubase users but dont think that would have happend in Live... I had my PC crash during a production, but when i started it up again and the started Live.. I got the text 'Do you wanna continue from your unsaved project'. Never had that problem though i have a 4 year old Simens "box" that crashes every once in a while i have never lost a project due to this..

But i feel for you mate..

Cheers
C

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