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Goss-stick
New member
In my session I accidently cleared the files in the session. Is there any way to retrieve it back??!! This is a real nightmare!! Please tell me there is a way and how!
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
uh-oh ...... we've all done this.
Hopefully someone will be along to tell you what to do.
Good luck.
Hopefully someone will be along to tell you what to do.
Good luck.
philbagg
Just Killing Time
What DAW are you running? Run us through exactly what you did.
Two tips:
1) Sequential saving - Avoid using "Save" and use "Save As" instead. Then, when you're saving, put a number after the title. Eg "Song - 1", "Song - 2" etc. This way, if you make a mistake, you can revert to an earlier version and start again. I "Save As" about every 15 minutes when I'm working on stuff.
2) Back up, back up, back up - Can't stress this enough. If you have a major fuckup, it's always nice to have a backup. Always back your sessions up to a separate drive (such as an external - or if you use an external to work on your stuff elsewhere, when you get home back it up onto your computer).
I had a drive fail on me a few months back, lost about a weeks worth of work. I had the stuff backed up and it was all stuff I could redo (audio editing), just left it too long before I backed up again. Whereas, if I never had it backed up, that would have been one very angry band. Nowadays I work off one external drive, and when I'm finished, I save my work and back it all up to another external drive. I then back up to my computer every two weeks or so. Just good practice
Edit: Just noticed this is in the Pro Tools forum
Still, point out to me what you did. There should be a folder in your session folder called "Session File Backups". Go into that, and look at all the date/times and find one that was made before you lost your audio. Open that session, and then save it as a regular session (Pro Tools doesn't like you running "Recovered" session files as a regular session).
However, this all goes out the window if you had "Session Backup" turned off - but I doubt you did. Because, if you did turn it off, you'd know it was there and you wouldn't be asking the question Hope this helps.
Two tips:
1) Sequential saving - Avoid using "Save" and use "Save As" instead. Then, when you're saving, put a number after the title. Eg "Song - 1", "Song - 2" etc. This way, if you make a mistake, you can revert to an earlier version and start again. I "Save As" about every 15 minutes when I'm working on stuff.
2) Back up, back up, back up - Can't stress this enough. If you have a major fuckup, it's always nice to have a backup. Always back your sessions up to a separate drive (such as an external - or if you use an external to work on your stuff elsewhere, when you get home back it up onto your computer).
I had a drive fail on me a few months back, lost about a weeks worth of work. I had the stuff backed up and it was all stuff I could redo (audio editing), just left it too long before I backed up again. Whereas, if I never had it backed up, that would have been one very angry band. Nowadays I work off one external drive, and when I'm finished, I save my work and back it all up to another external drive. I then back up to my computer every two weeks or so. Just good practice
Edit: Just noticed this is in the Pro Tools forum
Still, point out to me what you did. There should be a folder in your session folder called "Session File Backups". Go into that, and look at all the date/times and find one that was made before you lost your audio. Open that session, and then save it as a regular session (Pro Tools doesn't like you running "Recovered" session files as a regular session).However, this all goes out the window if you had "Session Backup" turned off - but I doubt you did. Because, if you did turn it off, you'd know it was there and you wouldn't be asking the question
Hope this helps.
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Goss-stick
New member
What I did...
So basically in pt on the upper right side. I clicked on "regions" and instead up chosing the "unused files" then hit "clear" I just wait str8 to clear and it deleted all the files I had in the session.
So basically in pt on the upper right side. I clicked on "regions" and instead up chosing the "unused files" then hit "clear" I just wait str8 to clear and it deleted all the files I had in the session.
tlennon1
Member
You are up the creek w/o a paddle. Unfortunately, there is no recovery. The files are not saved to your recycle bin.
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alesalazarmusic
New member
MAC or PC?
If you have a MAC....you may have the "time machine" feature and you may be able to retreive the sessions, back in the day before you deleted.
Suerte, amigo.
If you have a MAC....you may have the "time machine" feature and you may be able to retreive the sessions, back in the day before you deleted.
Suerte, amigo.
philbagg
Just Killing Time
...or...
OR!!!
How about this?
Instead of using time machine or system restore etc. to do a restore of the entire hard drive...
...wait for it... wait for it......
Just open a session backup file like I said?
And if you only hit "remove" and not "delete" in the Clear dialog box, your audio is still there. So, if you don't have a session backup file, you can still import the audio and place it back together. This is only as difficult as how complicated your session was.
OR!!!
How about this?
Instead of using time machine or system restore etc. to do a restore of the entire hard drive...
...wait for it... wait for it......
Just open a session backup file like I said?
And if you only hit "remove" and not "delete" in the Clear dialog box, your audio is still there. So, if you don't have a session backup file, you can still import the audio and place it back together. This is only as difficult as how complicated your session was.