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emilydefay
emilydefay
Participant
October 2, 2018
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Not Saving Work

  • October 2, 2018
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Running Premiere Pro CC 2018 on a brand new iMac. Auto save pops up as normal but sometimes on quitting and reopening, discovered it didn't save any or some of the work done in a session. This is really frustrating as we shoot wedding films for a living. First time it crashed and we lost 4 hours of work this way. It crashed while trying to copy and paste Lumetri color. Second time, rendered the full project, quit, reopened, and seemed to lose random bits here and there. It was hard to tell because it was mostly subtle color correction. Haven't discovered a rhyme or reason to it yet. Anyone else having a similar issue and know how to fix it?

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Correct answer R Neil Haugen

Autosave runs depending on the activity level of editing. If editing is constant a-s may wait awhile.

But realistically no one working any computer for paying work should ever in their life rely on autosave.

Think about it. If it's set to every 5 minutes and 20 iterations and runs every 5 minutes  ... that's what, an hour and 40 minutes? ... and it starts over-writing previous saves.

You're working,  and some bit of corruption gets into some part of the project but you don't notice  and work away for a couple hours. Close while eating lunch,  come back and  ... every freaking auto-save copy is corrupted. You are ... trashed.

And it worked perfectly!

One of my early posts on here was an angsted RANT!!! about PrPro shafting me. A couple crusty but experienced editors responded in short pithy comments that well, we hope you're smart enough not to do stupid again. Really sympathetic you know? lol

And Ann pointed out the error of me ways.

It's Basic Computer 101, really.

Shortly after starting a new project do a manual save.

Every bit of work or completed step, repeat.

Every few manual saves, do an iterative Save-as and continue with that file.

Every couple of those, Save a Copy to a different drive, preferably over a network to a different computer.

You always have a way back.

Neil

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Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
Legend
November 7, 2018

Flecha Photography,

Sorry for this. Kindly upvote this feature request: Instant Auto Save – Adobe video & audio apps

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
R Neil Haugen
R Neil HaugenCorrect answer
Legend
October 2, 2018

Autosave runs depending on the activity level of editing. If editing is constant a-s may wait awhile.

But realistically no one working any computer for paying work should ever in their life rely on autosave.

Think about it. If it's set to every 5 minutes and 20 iterations and runs every 5 minutes  ... that's what, an hour and 40 minutes? ... and it starts over-writing previous saves.

You're working,  and some bit of corruption gets into some part of the project but you don't notice  and work away for a couple hours. Close while eating lunch,  come back and  ... every freaking auto-save copy is corrupted. You are ... trashed.

And it worked perfectly!

One of my early posts on here was an angsted RANT!!! about PrPro shafting me. A couple crusty but experienced editors responded in short pithy comments that well, we hope you're smart enough not to do stupid again. Really sympathetic you know? lol

And Ann pointed out the error of me ways.

It's Basic Computer 101, really.

Shortly after starting a new project do a manual save.

Every bit of work or completed step, repeat.

Every few manual saves, do an iterative Save-as and continue with that file.

Every couple of those, Save a Copy to a different drive, preferably over a network to a different computer.

You always have a way back.

Neil

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