Trombone Bends

[rrayner]

Bless you, Sherry! Bless you, bless you, bless you. As you know, I'm an impatient user -- I dig into what I need for the moment, and have little time for other research. I had never stumbled on the Auto Recovery feature, and therefore was trying to rebuild from a 5-day old file, comparing it to a good midi file I had created before my catastrophe -- not fun.

As fate would have it, I was so distressed over my faux-pas that I got paranoid and put yesterday's date in the filename, so my original file's backups were not being pushed out of the bottom of the stack -- a stroke of good fortune. So, of the 5 backups for the original file, number 3 was the final before my disaster. I've lost all of the time yesterday and this morning to my now-unnecessary rebuild, but that pales compared to what I still had left to do (and changes that might not get made again, if the thought didn't strike me again). So, if my opening sentence seems a bit overboard, indeed it is not.

Now, I just need to get back to the final tweaking that I was in the midst of yesterday, before it got dark.

Ralph

[Sherry C]

Hi Ralph,

Glad that the Auto-recover feature helped

For anyone else reading the thread, you can set the frequency (minutes between saves) and number of backup iterations to save in File/Auto-save Options.

If you have a crash for any reason (any other software that crashes your machine, memory failure, etc.) then you'll still only lose the last few minutes of your work (ie. only what you did since the last auto-save). Auto-save works in the background so you don't even see it working usually (and may not even realize it's there ).

All you'll need to do to get your last working file is to use File/Auto-save file recovery, and find the filename you were working on. The latest saved file has a "1" on it, the next-to-last is "2" and so forth back down the line.

It's saved my hide more than once, too

ttfn,
Sherry