Crash even on backups

[mmponline]

I've created a project and then it started crashing on opening. I went back on the backups, but even they are corrupt up to a point. (Many hours of wor back)

1. What is the use of back-ups if it is corrupt as well?
2. Is there a way to determine the crashes or is it just bad luck (Bad program)? I use the latest MSP 8 with all SPs installed.
4. I tried to open the file on my laptop as well (No luck)
3. Is there any way to recover some of my work? Deadline!!!!!

[Devil]

It is clear that if you do something that corrupts a file but doesn't crash the app, the backups will also be corrupt. I had exactly the same problem with Word, the other day and apparently lost all record of a 190-page document I wrote. Fortunately, I was able to recover it by using an earlier version of Word, although the formatting went haywire.

Good working practice:
Once every 60-90 minutes, close the app. and reload it. This will check the integrity and, if anything goes wrong, you won't lose too much.

Recovery:
Sometimes, you can recover corrupt files by opening a new project, putting in a colour clip as a marker, and then Inserting your old clip after the clip, which you can then delete. No guarantee, though: it depends on the nature of the corruption.

[Gra]

Hi
I had a similar problem a while back on a major project and had to go right back to a much earlier backup to continue (oh, how I laughed!)

The lesson I learned was to make a separate copy of the retrieved project and called it a totally different name. Then I alternated my saves between the two copies so that if one crashed and was unretiveable, the other would work ok (which did happen again but that time I had a working separate backup).

Although it was obviously something unique to that project that caused the corruption as it hasn't happened again - touch wood, I follow my backup practice as a matter of course on any major project I'm working on (i.e. lots of tracks, clips and effects) as it just takes a second to save to alternate files but a couple of hours to retieve a totally corrupt project - if at all!

[iafilm]

I had similar problems. I guessed that importing earlier editing as dvp's onto the timeline could be pushing my system too hard. I stopped importing dvp's and I have had no more crashes. But I was unable to recover the lost work.