Please tell me there's an auto-Save feature!

[Christopher-Mark Gilland]

So, I just had my worst moment. I did a track, and oh, my, God! It was
flawless! I mean, I literally almost never have gotten my sound so crisp,
and balanced! Oh, it, was, fuh frickin, nomenal! I go to bounce it, and, I
dono why, but, kuh, boom! ProTools totally sh***s the bed, and quits
unexpectedly. Oh, I darn near cried. (Notl literally, obviously, LOL!) I
hadn't done a save! so now, all that work, down? the drain! Boy? did I
learn my! lesson! Sheesh oh mothers! Anyway, going forward, is there an
auto-Save function that every few minutes will save my session? I often
forget to save at the most critical moments, then wind up getting... well...
um... yeah, you get the idea, no need to throw the past tense of the f bomb.
LOL! Oh, I feel now like such an idiot! I can't believe i forgot to save!

I guess unfortunately, there is no way we can check if that thing somehow
did get saved? I highly doubt it did.

Chris.

[Kevin Reeves]

Look in your session file backups folder inside your session. You'll see a ton of files in there. choose the one that has the most recent date on it. That may or may not contain your latest track. It's just a gamble on whether or not it auto backed up after you recorded the track. But that's where you'll always find your session backups.

Kevin

[The Oreo Monster]

even if it wasn't auto saved, which by the way there is an auto save feature, its in preferences don't remember which tab though, the audio file should be in the audio files folder for the project. So if it wasn't auto saved, go to the project folder on your recording drive and find the audio files folder and then you can import that file or files into a new protools project.
The Oreo Monster
monkeyp...@gmail.com

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, it is called session file auto backups and I myself turned it off as
I always hit command and s to save something after recording so don't
have to be to consearnd. The audio files folder however does store the
raw wav files that you record so even if you had a system crash the
recording itself would still exist. Nick Gawronski

[Christopher-Mark Gilland]

OK Kevin, thank you., I'll have a look.

Chris.

Kevin=

[Christopher-Mark Gilland]

You know?

That's actually not a half bad idea. I'll look to see.

BTW, I hope that you don't take offense to me asking this, but I'm just
curious as I've been getting a fair amount of help lately from you on list.
Just so I can properly address you, what exactly is your real actual name?

I know you go by the Oreo Monster, but, call me weird, I just like to have
an actual name to place with peole. It just helps me when making friends.
Maybe I'm just weird...

LOL!

Anyway, these all're great suggestions. I'll give them a shot.

Chris.

----- Original Message -----
From: "The Oreo Monster" <monkeyp...@gmail.com>
To: <ptac...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: Please tell me there's an auto-Save feature!

[Christopher-Mark Gilland]

I guess, Nick, my only concern is, can I remember how I processed the vocals
to get such a great sound? I think I can, for what it's worth, but will
have to see, as I'll bet those audio files probably have, as you said, the
raw vocal, not the processed version. Right?

Chris.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Gawronski" <ni...@nickgawronski.com>
To: <ptac...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: Please tell me there's an auto-Save feature!

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, Well in pro tools 10 in the project folder there is a plugin
settings folder so you could try just selecting the plugins you had and
see if it did save your settings for the plugins you were using. Nick
Gawronski

[ThePauloman80]

This just saved my butt. Happened across your post after a frantic Google search. Thanks!