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barryb71238904
barryb71238904
Inspiring
February 28, 2017
Question

Lost compositions after Purge???

  • February 28, 2017
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Hello, first time post and I am hoping this is something very simple to resolve???

Ok, so here is my problem:

I have/had quite a hefty file which I was RAM rendering however only a minute or so of the 21 mins+ rendered.

I then went on to purge the file to speed up the rendering however once i have done this all but one of the compositions have completely gone!

It seems to have auto saved? even thought this option was not selected and did not give me the option to save?

I have no idea what has happened and your help will save me over 2 weeks worth of work.

This happened at 17:00 UK time and i had been saving it frequently during the day. Is there a way I can recover previously saved versions from my external hardrive by date and time? Is this a lost cause or can anyone at least explain how this is happened to avoid it in the future. I appreciate your feedback and look forward to hearing from you.

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    Szalam
    Community Expert
    SzalamCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 28, 2017

    When you say you "purged" the file, what do you mean?

      barryb71238904
      barryb71238904Author
      Inspiring
      February 28, 2017

      Purged to clear memory.

      P.M.B
      P.M.B
      Legend
      February 28, 2017

      You went to    Edit>Purge>Purge all Memory? 

      ~Gutterfish
      Dave_LaRonde
      Dave_LaRonde
      Inspiring
      February 28, 2017

      You wrote that it autosaved.  Open up one of the autosaved versions, and you won't have to replicate as much work.

      FYI -- unless your computer has about 4-8 terabytes of RAM, you'll NEVER be able to preview 21 minutes!  People who work in AE get used to previewing small sections of their work.

      barryb71238904
      barryb71238904Author
      Inspiring
      February 28, 2017

      Hello Dave,

      It was as if it has saved automatically. I have never used auto save previously. The file has gone from a 2 mb file to an 88kb so its obvious the multiple files have been deleted some how and saved?

      I saved it minutes before attempting to purge then after the purge process it gave no option to save or any indication that it had saved?

      Thanks for the advice on the preview.

      barryb71238904
      barryb71238904Author
      Inspiring
      February 28, 2017

      By the way I am using CS3 and the original files are on a seagate external HD. If this helps any?

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