Should I recover the previous project file

[bob733]

Once again, the bug ridden VS11 Plus is rearing its ugly head and crashing every few things that I do.

Once again, I think it has to do with it getting screwed up linkage wise and the media you bring into a project, but I can not prove it for sure.

I forget how I fixed it the last time but here is the question

Whenever it crashes and I restart VS, it always asks me if I want to recover the previous project file. As I have been saving every few functions I enter, I say NO. Why recover a project that crashed?

But I would appreciate any info about this. Also, has anything been done about these VS11 Crashes. Lord knows, ULEAD has know about them enough.

Bob

[Ken Berry]

I think the general experience is to avoid recovering the auto-saved project because it is often from a much earlier time in your editing. This would especially be the case if, as I do as well, you save regularly. And just to make a distinction, I don't do it because the program crashes on me -- it doesn't. I just want to be prepared in case it does!! Some of our users have a variant of saving a project as a new project after important changes so that they can revert to an earlier version if a major change goes wrong.

As for its being a bug, I agree that it does seem to crash for a lot of people, but I am not necessarily sure whether Corel would classify it as a bug unless it can be shown to happen to just about everyone (and I don't think it can) or they can emulate it (which would be interesting if they could). There are all sorts of factors which could influence it, such as the ones you already mentioned. But to name but one other big contributor to such crashes is when a user has installed a mega codec pack on their computer. These often cause conflicts with existing codecs and a crash is the usual result...

[Ken Veal]

Do you do a disc clean up everytime before using VS to get rid of temp files that may be causing the poblem ?

[bob733]

No, but that may not be a bad idea.

Thanks

BOb