deletion of drawings during saving

[Enola Hourlier]

Hello ! Every time I try to save my work all the draw desepears, I watched youtube videos about how to fix that but nothing change the canvas stays clean without my drawing... I trie multiple times to correct the bug but I can't reach it...its really hard when you finished 3hours of animation and when you finally save it, it reased everything and can go back...If someone can help me that would be wonderful ! thanks in advance !

[Jorge del Campo Andrade]

Hi Enola

The fist is undertand where you're saving your drawings.

• Did you check the drawings sub-folder in your project folder?
• In OpenToonz veryfy the levels path location with Level / Level Options menu.

Kind regards.

[Gabriel Gazzán (gab3d)]

1. First of all, never work 3 hours without saving your work. Save every time you've made an important change or progress in your work.

2. Do you know that when you save a Scene that action not necessarily saves the drawings created in the scene?
That happens because each Level has its own file in the disc (which is different from the Scene file), and must be saved too.

The Save All command (in the File menu) saves both Scene+Levels used. But if you just use the Save Scene command and Quit, you never really saved the Levels, so the next time you open the scene, the drawings will not be there (because they don't exist).