Today I went to open the project I finished on Friday, and found that it and every other project I'd been working on for the past two months had vanished. There were a few projects from earlier in the year, but everything after that had simply disappeared without a trace. Unfortunately I hadn't backed up what I was working on, so I guess I'll have to start all over again. Is there any explanation for why this would happen?
I'm on a Mac. Weirdly, the autosaves from those older projects are there, but not for the newer ones. I'ts like my computer travelled back in time to before I made them...
Did you ever find a solution or did you start over? The exact same thing happened to me and the project I spent blood, sweat, and tears on is just GONE. I had the same thought that my computer "travelled back in time" because the stuff from 2 months ago is there, but not this week's project. 😞
It is extremely rare (escpecially on a MacOS) to have files "dissapear". There have been some viruses on Windows that could delete files if you ran the initial malicious .exe. But for files to simply disapear is omething I have never heard of. Were all your .proj files in the same folder as the footage or were you saving in another location? The last time I saw something similar was when a user had imported media from an external drive but was saving to the external instead of local. He had forgotten about this and when the project was completed he had erased the external and lost all the saves. He, was however lucky as he had set up hos autosave location to a local folder.
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