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Where does TS save backups? Crashed, can't find restored scene... About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Where does TS save backups? Crashed, can't find restored scene... // Roundtable 1  |   Order by default Post by davidjohnson // May 5, 2008, 10:34am davidjohnson Total Posts: 169 I just had a weird and terrible experience. I was working on a project, saved it - rendered it and then it crashed. No big deal, started up TS and the last project was there, but I then started a new scene and then tried to pull up the restored scene a little while later and it is no where to be found - the only files that are saved are 2 hours old and this one was only 30 minutes old. Now, I know it restored the right file after the crash, so where did it go? Post by splinters // May 5, 2008, 10:38am splinters Total Posts: 4148 Do you have 7.51? This happened to me a few times in 7.0 and I never did find out what happened. If I remember correctly, they were completely lost. If your are on an earlier version, you can often open find your data in a .bak file. That has sved my bacon a few times...:o Post by TomG // May 5, 2008, 10:49am TomG Total Posts: 3397 7.51 stores any overwritten scenes (or objects) in the Recycle Bin. So if you save a new version of Scene1 over Scene1 in the libraries (with a Replace), tS7.51 will move the old version to the Recycle Bin, and you can restore it from there. Naturally it keeps multiple copies, so if you overwrite it 3 times with a Replace function, you'll find the original copies in there. Sort by date and restore the most recent. HTH! Tom Post by davidjohnson // May 5, 2008, 12:23pm davidjohnson Total Posts: 169 Sorry, it is 6.6. I lost about 2 hours of work. Nothing much to do but create it again. Oh the pain. Post by splinters // May 5, 2008, 12:49pm splinters Total Posts: 4148 No .bak file? Post by TomG // May 6, 2008, 2:56am TomG Total Posts: 3397 The single .bak file was how backups were done in earlier versions of tS - again only when you saved over the existing scene file. It would copy the existing scene file to the .bak rather than .scn, meaning you always had one earlier version to revert to. HTH! Tom

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