Don't let this happen to you...

granitehead

Here's an opportunity to learn from my misfortune. A tip: In PTP (or any Sonar version) go to Options->Global->General and enable auto-save to protect those precious .cwp files.
This morning, I opened a project I've been working on for a couple months (it was close to final mixdown / posting) made a couple edits, saved it then left it for an hour or so. Came back, made one more change, exited, said \"Yes\" to Save?... Blue Screen of Death. Reboot, run Sonar, open my project: \"The file you are trying to open is not compatible with this version of SONAR\" (V4.0.2) What this meant in my case is that the file is no more. Destroyed. XP's write-behind disk caching (which is now disabled on my machine) clobbered the file. Latest backup is about a month old (my bad) and I was not aware of the auto-save feature (my dbl. bad) which will create a backup copy of the .cwp.
I still have all the audio clips (I think) but there are 20 tracks, 100s or active clips 100s of inactive clips; it will take days to piece this back together.
Sadder, Budweiser. - g

ACWild

Sorry to hear that. Thanks for the reminder. I lost a bunch of files when swapping computers. I just set up the autosave for every 30 minutes.

grathan

just curious, are you suggestion that auto-save woulda have saved your files by having a more recent copy than a month ago?

ACWild

Nope. I guess that shouldn't have been in the same sentence.

granitehead

Spent most of yesterday re-assembling something workable. I was able to weed out inactive clips pretty quickly since they had a non-current last accessed date. Also, I had recently performed a bounce to tracks operation on my wet rhythms and leads to split into two mono tracks each so these came in easily as single clips. I also previously recorded audio from the midi drums, so I have drums (whew); but I lost all the sequencing. Dry tracks are very fragmented... I think I like the current wet sound.
- g