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Originally posted by Diginerd Sucks about the loss, but here's a handy hint that applies to ANY saving (I use theis with my Hardware smapler too). 1. Save your song / sequence / samples to FILENAME1 2. Next save do a save as to FILENAME2 next time you save save back as FILENAME1, rinse and repeat between the two files. That way if something bad happens in a save you at least have a backup. If your software supports autosaving turn it on and kepp at least 3 or 4 backups every 5 mins. Not going to help you this time, but going forwards will pull your ass out of the fire is a similar thing happens..

I just keep going.

FILENAME1
FILENAME2
FILENAME3
FILENAME4
ect.

I end up with about 30. Its good cos you can go back and get stuff u removed earlier if u need to. It also stops you being scared to remove stuff as you know u can go back. I'm cut throat now.....

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Originally posted by dj_kane whats your sequencer? cubase does that to me all the fucking time. i save my work every 5 minutes to be sure.

thats bad mate. i love cubase. i have never lost anything on it myself. even when the system crashes from trying to run a 5 minute timstretch while doing some serious work on photoshop on a 200meg image at the same time.. it always allows me to click save and then restart where id just saved.

im usinf 512meg on a celeron 2.6

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Im sorry about your track, i feel for you , it has happend to me sometimes before, when a used to use reason. I thought i would share how i do my savings.

I dont know about cubase, ive never used it before. But i know that when my computer f**ks up (Happens one in a while), i just reboot it, cus Ableton Live got this nice feature, that it recover it self to the latest NOT SAVED history, in other words the "the undo history".

Cubase got that?, But cubase maybe isn´t a realtime sequncer?. I know this "sucks" more power out of your cpu, but it doesnt have to, as long as you make an own patition for Ableton.

Another thing a do, is that i Save my stuff two times, one to my main haed drive, and one two a external backup harddrive. I think this is verry effective, cus i can allways take my material with me and plug it in my laptop if im traveling someware, and its safe.

Cheers
C

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fl keeps a backup of your last project i belive so look in trash bin, that goes to say u didnt start a new project maybe u can get wat u had in its final state

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Another thing you can try is to rename your project. Sometimes just renaming it will allow the program to open it again.

As for your track:

The key/chord vs. the lead is very diminished sounding, maybe that is the sound you were going for, but just wanted to let you know that it tends to sound *off* to some people, like stuck in a never ending suspense waiting for the key to go either full major or minor.

Also, way too much reverb. Not sure what reverb plug in you are using, but it's quite nasty.

c:\FL\Trash bin\

"When you overwrite a song file, the previous one is not really overwritten, instead it's placed here as a backup, so that in case you made a mistake your project is not lost."

Unfortunatelly i think is too late

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Originally posted by FuzzyGreen Another thing you can try is to rename your project. Sometimes just renaming it will allow the program to open it again. As for your track: The key/chord vs. the lead is very diminished sounding, maybe that is the sound you were going for, but just wanted to let you know that it tends to sound *off* to some people, like stuck in a never ending suspense waiting for the key to go either full major or minor. Also, way too much reverb. Not sure what reverb plug in you are using, but it's quite nasty.

file's totally corrupt. I checked it with a hex-editor, and most of the file consists of null-bytes, so renaming wouldn't help, but thx though.

The music theory I know doesn't allow me to do that on purpose, so it's purely coincidental. ;P I'd have to read up on diminished scales probably...

And I think I was using Classic Reverb for reverb. It is nasty yes ;P I used FL's own Reeverb too, but it's not that nasty.

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Originally posted by DjGeMiNi529 fl keeps a backup of your last project i belive so look in trash bin, that goes to say u didnt start a new project maybe u can get wat u had in its final state

DAMN! It's too late... If I'd only knew that before!

thx anyways though, now I know that for the future ;D

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