Screaming For Attention Posted Friday at 01:55 AM Share Posted Friday at 01:55 AM Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I am SURE this has been asked but I cant find the thread. I started a new project and after about an two hours Calkwalk crashed. I tried to find the recovery folder and files but I don't see anything with today's date on it and i didn't even give the song a name at that point, I never hit the Save button. Is there a chance this song is in some recovery folder or it it lost? Thank you, James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promidi Posted Saturday at 08:27 AM Share Posted Saturday at 08:27 AM If you have never saved then sorry, it's lost. I think for autosave to have worked (if enabled), you have to have saved at least once (if this is not correct, can someone please correct). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmcleod Posted Saturday at 10:13 AM Share Posted Saturday at 10:13 AM 1 hour ago, Promidi said: If you have never saved then sorry, it's lost. I think for autosave to have worked (if enabled), you have to have saved at least once (if this is not correct, can someone please correct). AFAIK this is the case. Any MIDI will have been lost, however any audio that was recorded will be in your Global Audio Folder - by default this is C:\Cakewalk Projects\Audio Data, but it'll be in whatever path is set under Preferences->File->Audio Data. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Dickens Posted Saturday at 06:59 PM Share Posted Saturday at 06:59 PM You worked for two hours without saving? Bet you won't do that again. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sock Monkey Posted Saturday at 08:54 PM Share Posted Saturday at 08:54 PM Hey I think we've all done it. Me more than once, I'm a slow learner. But Cakewalks default settings are partially to blame. Most software I use defaults to auto save and you have to shut it off if unwanted. I'm pretty sure Cakewalks default is off. Auto save has saved my butt with Vegas a few times. You want to see crashing- try Vegas Pro! I really need to switch to something else. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User 905133 Posted Saturday at 11:20 PM Share Posted Saturday at 11:20 PM (edited) 4 hours ago, Byron Dickens said: You worked for two hours without saving? Bet you won't do that again. I learned this lesson once when I had worked on a conference paper in a word processing program called SpeedScript. I hadn't saved in several hours. As I said, I learned this lesson once. No need to relearn it; once was enough! In fact, even though that was around 4 decades ago, just thinking about it, in my mind's eye I can see the room I was working in, where I was sitting, typing, the paper I was working on, how I had index cards and printouts of the ideas I wanted to pull together into the paper, etc. I don't remember my exact stream of words, but I remember the feeling of having lost several hours of ongoing writing and editing and the futility of trying to reconstruct the version I had just before it crashed. JMO: It's a very valuable lesson to learn early. BTW, nowadays I have an automatic reminder in my brain thanks to that incident. "You haven't saved in a while; better save it right now!!!" I didn't know it at the time, but I have come to think of the incident as a blessing. Edited Saturday at 11:21 PM by User 905133 added a missing word: the Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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