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| hey cheggy |
I've spent the last month on this song, making sure everything is perfect, making the most amazing leads and progressions. Today, Cubase will not open the file. WTF did I pay $1,500 dollars for... a program that eats your work. I am soo pissed off right now. I have done nothing to deserve this, I even spoke to an old lady just to be nice, now this.
Anyone else have this problem/ and find a solution apart from taking all the audio files, recreating all the midi files, guessing what all the fx were, and starting again. |
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| SOLTRI |
| I'm sure you thought of this already but what about opening it on a different version of cubase or a different pc. You could always try to contact their customer support. Good luck |
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| hey cheggy |
| The problem isn't Cubase, the problem is the cubase file. Unfortunately, this isn't the first time this has happened. |
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| illectricpunk |
| Ohh, you paid 1500 Australian dollars. I was thinking US dollars, about to say you got ripped off. |
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| kewlness |
I always save my projects like this
project1.mp3
then after 3 hours of working on it, I save it as project2.mp3 and so on...
I never have any problems with lost work but I just do that to be on the safe side and i think my comp can handle another extra 100k file on my hard drive heh |
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| Tranc3 |
| I've had this happen to me before. As I remember it, Cubase will automatically save a backup every ten minutes. Being the paranoid person I am, I set it to 5. I think it should be in your project folder somewhere. |
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| hey cheggy |
Nope, no backup in the project folder.
Kelwness, I have a .wav file of where I'm up to, its the .cpr file I want back.
tranc3, where do I configure Cubase to make a backup. This is what I obviously need to do in the future.
Cheers.
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found it. i hadn't checked the box. |
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| Tranc3 |
| quote: | Originally posted by hey cheggy
Nope, no backup in the project folder.
Kelwness, I have a .wav file of where I'm up to, its the .cpr file I want back.
tranc3, where do I configure Cubase to make a backup. This is what I obviously need to do in the future.
Cheers.
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found it. i hadn't checked the box. |
Doh.
All I can say for now is to contact tech support, but you should be ok for the future now that you've got the automated backups. |
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| hey cheggy |
I think from now on, I will save as rather than save so that I always have a working version of yesterday's work.
Well I'm starting again cos this song was way too good to forget.
Thanks for the help Tranc3 |
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| pho mo |
Very sad to hear about this tragedy.
Thankfully I haven't lost a .cpr yet, but just in case I always back up.
I've got a small working drive ( F: ) with only the current project. I only keep one project on there so it never gets fragmented ( = best possible disk access for audio )
But my data drive ( H: ) is heaps bigger and I always keep backups there.
Cubase is cool because all you have to do is copy the project folder across somewhere else, and all the edited audio, midi etc. are in there. |
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| Stuart Silver |
That sucks cheggy! It's a shame Cubase doesn't have a 'save new version' feature like Fruity, so you could always keep a backup.
I seem to remember reading on the Cubase.net forums ages ago that someone at Steinberg managed to recover a corrupt cubase file, so I'd suggest getting in touch with them asap and seeing if there is anything they can do. |
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| Synergie |
| I had once this problem with Reason .rns file and I started to create backups after every significant changes in my project. ;) |
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