Saved progress suddenly missing!!!!!!!!!!

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
September 10, 2020
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I was rigging normally then open Chrome to respond to some Whatsapp messages and then when I returned to Character Animator, boom! My progress lost to a yesterday saved-file.

What the heck just happened? It's a 1 day work just disappear! Please help me!!!!!

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Correct answer David Arbor

Is it possible that you accidentally went back in your history?

The History panelwill show every change you've made in your project, unless you clear the history. Also, the top part of the panel shows saved "versions" or states of your project that you can go back to. You can create these by hitting "Cmd/Ctrl + S" or by clicking the "Save New Version" button at the bottom of the History panel.

If that top section with the different versions is empty, there's still another place to try. Click the flyout (hamburger) menu of the History panel and click "Show Auto-saved Versions." This will switch from your manually saved versions to ones Character Animator made by itself. Hopefully something here will get you back to where you need to be.

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David ArborCorrect answer

Inspiring

Is it possible that you accidentally went back in your history?

The History panelwill show every change you've made in your project, unless you clear the history. Also, the top part of the panel shows saved "versions" or states of your project that you can go back to. You can create these by hitting "Cmd/Ctrl + S" or by clicking the "Save New Version" button at the bottom of the History panel.

If that top section with the different versions is empty, there's still another place to try. Click the flyout (hamburger) menu of the History panel and click "Show Auto-saved Versions." This will switch from your manually saved versions to ones Character Animator made by itself. Hopefully something here will get you back to where you need to be.

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Inspiring

But I am just wondering what caused it?

ebenheizerm28787053Author

Inspiring

Ctrl+S used to do nothing, but it would give you a number of silly messages telling you that you didn't need to save. This is a habitual behavior for many users, but as you said, it's unnecessary with a database structure. Not too long ago, the team changed this behavior to making manual versions. This is a way of giving the users control of creating their own restore point for changes or milestones that are easy to go back to vs. having to dig through the History panel to try to find a specific restore point.

If I'm rigging a puppet I might hit Ctrl+S after I'm satisfied with the quality of my rig and then name that history state accordingly. At that point I could feel free to keep tweaking another 100 clicks or do something more destructive since I know I'll always be able to go back to my saved state at the click of a button. I could try to find my way back 100 steps in the History if I decided I didn't like what I did, or I could restore my manually save state.

Ahh, I see. It's more like a marker to highlight the history state.

Thanks!

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