Please help!!!!! lost entire project :(

[cyprusx]

I was almost done making my movie, for school when i get an error not allowing me to open the file. it first stated when i exited after getting a message saying i cant create a file due to no hard disk room. it asked me if i want to save i said no. now i cant open that file anymore. i get this error (file reading error 20379:1:107) can someone please help me:(

my source files properties are
data rate 336kbps
video sample size 24bit
video compression Divx
audio mpeg layer 3
bit rate 128kbps

and my C drive is 99% full

[Devil]

I fear that you have lost everything. It's a BIG mistake not to have adequate disk space. Ideally you should have at least 2-3x your project size free, because editing often generates temp files. If I understand you correctly, you have just one disk. This should work but is risky because you may need to access OS dlls, virtual memory, application dlls, temp files, project files, source files and destination files all more or less simultaneously. This means that the disk head has to whizz back and fro like gangbusters and if you are reading and/or writing video, it is possible that the data needs to be read/written faster than the buffers can cope, causing crashing or, at least, unreadable files.

[asande]

MSP, with its default settings, automatically creates backup copies of your project files. If you look in the folder where you've been saving your project files, you should find a sub-folder with the same name as your project - if you look inside this sub-folder, you should find a number of these automatically generated project backup. Try copying the most recent of these into your project save directory and see if it will load into MSP...

You might want to clean up your hard disk first to create some free disk space.

I hope this helps...

[jpal]

If this is MSP8, then you'll have the subdirectory with previous versions saved as indicated above. These will have extensions .dvp, and the latest one will be the one with the highest project version no. e.g.

<project name>066.dvp

you can open this (hopefully) and take it from there.

As suggested, you'd do well to purge your hard disk first, and also can I respectfully suggest attending to backup if your material is valuable.

Apart from the issues you are having, using disks which are full leads to high levels of fragmentation, poor performance, and possible dropped frames on capture etc. Ideally, you'd have a separate drive for AV purposes anyway.


Regards John Baker

[cyprusx]

thanks guys it work i tried opening the back up file and it didnt work then the forth one worked. I also freed my C drive to 14 % and my D drive to 30 % free.