I recently thought I had copied all of the files I needed from the U-lead program over to a DVD just in case my hard-drive crashed. Well it happened the hard drive crashed and I lost all of the files that I had downloaded with U-Lead from my 8mm movie camera. All of the files I had downloaded showed up in the video thumbnail section and I right clicked on each thumbnail as I was looking for the subdirectory that they were saved to. I saved all of the files, well at least I thought I did but when I put the files back on my computer after I installed my new hard-drive all I had saved were the thumbnail titles as each file was not over 10KB long. What am I missing? I want to make sure that when I do this again I have a back up of all of those files so I will never have to download them from my video camera again. Thanks ahead of time.
Julie
Thought I had copied all of the files
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Re: Thought I had copied all of the files
The way I read Julie's message it appears as though she did save the .avi/mpg files? i.e.
Julie, I set up the directories that VS8 saves to and works in i.e. "Working Folder", project file etc to point to a completely separate partition on one of my hard drives. Then I use Norton Ghost (I use 2003 version as I have heard the latest version, v9 is not very good) to backup the entire partition to DVD(s) after I have completed the project.
You need something like Norton Ghost, Image for Windows (shareware - so you can try before you buy
) to allow the large files (13GByte for 1Hr of .avi) to be saved across multiple DVDs.
Plus, whenever you first establish a backup method, you should always IMMEDIATELY test the output to make sure it all worked! i.e. keep the original material and restore the saved information and verify they match. Never, ever, EVER, wait until your hard drive dies before finding out that all those backup discs are in actual fact useless....... (bit late now I know).
I have worked for companies that had faithfully performed backups every night for months and months only to find that the backup process wasn't working as they expected the first time they were forced to do a restore - resulting in man-months worth of work lost. So even when you are sure the method works, occasional tests of a backup are fully warranted and recommended
Best of luck,
Peter
but if what was recovered was only 10K each then obviously notjulie199 wrote:... I right clicked on each thumbnail as I was looking for the subdirectory that they were saved to. I saved all of the files, well at least I thought I did ...
Julie
Julie, I set up the directories that VS8 saves to and works in i.e. "Working Folder", project file etc to point to a completely separate partition on one of my hard drives. Then I use Norton Ghost (I use 2003 version as I have heard the latest version, v9 is not very good) to backup the entire partition to DVD(s) after I have completed the project.
You need something like Norton Ghost, Image for Windows (shareware - so you can try before you buy
) to allow the large files (13GByte for 1Hr of .avi) to be saved across multiple DVDs.Plus, whenever you first establish a backup method, you should always IMMEDIATELY test the output to make sure it all worked! i.e. keep the original material and restore the saved information and verify they match. Never, ever, EVER, wait until your hard drive dies before finding out that all those backup discs are in actual fact useless....... (bit late now I know
).I have worked for companies that had faithfully performed backups every night for months and months only to find that the backup process wasn't working as they expected the first time they were forced to do a restore - resulting in man-months worth of work lost. So even when you are sure the method works, occasional tests of a backup are fully warranted and recommended
Best of luck,
Peter