How do you recover unsaved projects if you can

[Lil Mamacoom]

I was making a project and when I was done I accidentally hit discarded saving the project. I NEED HELP.

[David Baay]

A file recovery app like 'Recuva' may be able to resurrect audio files, but if the project was never saved, there is nothing to recover; it was all in RAM., including any MIDI that was recorded.

[Lil Mamacoom]

Well thanks for the advice have a good day

 

[Promidi]

Did this project contain any audio that you recorded or is this a MIDI and VSTi based project?

If it contained recordings, then the audio folder may contain the actual audio of the recordings.

[razor7music]

22 hours ago, David Baay said:

A file recovery app like 'Recuva' may be able to resurrect audio files, but if the project was never saved, there is nothing to recover; it was all in RAM., including any MIDI that was recorded.

I tried that product at work for some data recovery. Unless something's changed, they say it's most successful if that part of your HDD that the "lost" data was written to isn't written to with new data before you try the restore. Basically, once the data is lost, step away from the computer and try the restore.

[Promidi]

2 minutes ago, Richangel said:

I was making a project and when I was done I accidentally hit discarded saving the project. I NEED HELP.

Your answer might be restore from your daily back up  (you do have one, don’t you?).

You might be able to use Windows explorer to go to where you saved your project and see of there are any versions of your project.  Look for files with a ~ extension (something like ~2024-04-08-22-38-34-695).  These might be present if you enabled versioning.

Note This is a four year old thread. 

You might be better off starting a new thread.

[Glenn Stanton]

7 hours ago, Promidi said:

Your answer might be restore from your daily back up  (you do have one, don’t you?).

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