sonicpsyops
Culture Of Convenience
Greetings,
Last night, I put the finishing touches on a project (using Sonar 7 Producer) and decided to hit the sack before exporting the audio. When I closed the project, an error popped up saying, "Microsoft Windows XP Pro has encountered a problem and has to..." I didn't pay much mind to it as this has happened before on rare instances and so I clicked OK and it went straight to the desktop without crashing.
This morning, I was stunned to find out that when I tried to open the project a message popped up saying that the file couldn't be found. The project folder was there but when I opened it, it revealed the audio folder and nothing else. The audio folder was empty. Upon opening previous projects, it would reveal the audio folder and the respective Cakewalk Project file. I did a search of the five drives I have and no luck. I tried to restore to a previous state. No luck. For over an hour I desperately searched for that project to no avail. It couldn't have just disappeared due to an error message. My fear was that the file had become corrupt due to whatever message that was.
I had accepted defeat and thought, well, I guess that'll lurn me for not backing up my stuff. I opened Windows Explorer to find a place to back up my other projects and I found the audio folder for Cakewalk on one of the other drives. I opened the folder and found folders to all of my projects including the one to the project it couldn't find. I opened the project folder expecting again to see the audio folder with no project file but instead I see the audio folder and an empty windows icon. When I tried to open the icon, I got a message saying, "can't open this file because Windows does not know what program created it. Do you want to try and open it with another program?" I clicked yes and chose Sonar 7 to open it. To my relief, the project that I thought was lost forever suddenly appeared except it had been renamed to something like FCM2* or FMC2* I can't remember which but I know it ended with "2*" and "F" was in there somewhere.
My first question is: what the hell happened!?!?
Second question: does Sonar automatically back files up on to another drive somewhere?
Last night, I put the finishing touches on a project (using Sonar 7 Producer) and decided to hit the sack before exporting the audio. When I closed the project, an error popped up saying, "Microsoft Windows XP Pro has encountered a problem and has to..." I didn't pay much mind to it as this has happened before on rare instances and so I clicked OK and it went straight to the desktop without crashing.
This morning, I was stunned to find out that when I tried to open the project a message popped up saying that the file couldn't be found. The project folder was there but when I opened it, it revealed the audio folder and nothing else. The audio folder was empty. Upon opening previous projects, it would reveal the audio folder and the respective Cakewalk Project file. I did a search of the five drives I have and no luck. I tried to restore to a previous state. No luck. For over an hour I desperately searched for that project to no avail. It couldn't have just disappeared due to an error message. My fear was that the file had become corrupt due to whatever message that was.
I had accepted defeat and thought, well, I guess that'll lurn me for not backing up my stuff. I opened Windows Explorer to find a place to back up my other projects and I found the audio folder for Cakewalk on one of the other drives. I opened the folder and found folders to all of my projects including the one to the project it couldn't find. I opened the project folder expecting again to see the audio folder with no project file but instead I see the audio folder and an empty windows icon. When I tried to open the icon, I got a message saying, "can't open this file because Windows does not know what program created it. Do you want to try and open it with another program?" I clicked yes and chose Sonar 7 to open it. To my relief, the project that I thought was lost forever suddenly appeared except it had been renamed to something like FCM2* or FMC2* I can't remember which but I know it ended with "2*" and "F" was in there somewhere.
My first question is: what the hell happened!?!?
Second question: does Sonar automatically back files up on to another drive somewhere?