Recover crashed song?

[Screaming For Attention]

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

[Promidi]

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). 

[msmcleod]

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.

[Byron Dickens]

You worked for two hours without saving?

Bet you won't do that again.

[Sock Monkey]

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. 

[User 905133]

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 November 30 by User 905133
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