Please help! - Part 2

[cat-eggs]

i'm sorry. i screwed up again. this might be a big one. let me tell you what happened...

i had just got the same damn song all arranged and situated the way i liked it, and i clicked "save." cool edit went through the saving process and crashed half-way through, as it occasionally does. i restarted cool edit, and clicked "continue session." it loaded everything back the way it was before crashing.

i was relieved. then i clicked "save" again, and it crashed again. i restarted cool edit, but it did not provide the option for me to continue the forementioned session. it instead opened a blank multitrack session.

so, what i'm asking is, is there any way to get that session back? if not, the song is ruined for the second and final time. there were unsaved tracks in that session, reinforcing the importance (in my mind) of saving often.

thanks for your time and participation in resolving my problems.

 

[dobro]

I think you've probably lost the tracks.

Two things, though. First, I've found that Save As is a kind of safety net often when Cool's screwing up. Having said that, I know I'd've done exactly the same thing you did after clicking 'continue session' - I'd've clicked save again. But clicking Save As would have indicated you wanted to do something new with it, and like I said, that's often hauled a session out of the shit for me.

Second, Cool stores everything in the temp directory, which means if you don't turn your computer off, you can find the files there, even if Cool doesn't want to load them. Very often the main temp directory for Cool is the Windows Temp directory, and by checking out the properties of files in there, you can usually find the waves that belong to your session. But if you turn your computer off, I think Windows dumps most or everything that's in the temp directory.

 

[chrisharris]

Yeah...what dobro said:

You might try this. Go into the c:/Windows/Temp directory, and look for a HUGE file. Try clicking on it and see if CEP tries to load the session.

BTW - IF you get it back, be sure to do the whole "close only nonsession waves" option first...then "save as."

Jeez, is the song about worshipping Satan or something?

 

[cat-eggs]

"Jeez, is the song about worshipping Satan or something?"

haha, yeah. thanks for the thoughts, dudes. if acceptance is the last step, consider me rehabilitated. i ended up just mixing down what i had, 'cause the temp files were gone.

HOWEVER, i did run into a free program called PC Inspector File Recovery. It's a file recovery program, as the name implies, and i think it would be very useful for problems like these (assuming you're patient enough to wait for the scan. sadly, i am not). but yeah... it lets you restore files that were lost in a crash.

good day