FUCKKKKKING FUCKKKKk
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The spark
Klaatu.. Barada.. Nikto..
Sounds like your hard drive or operating system is dieing a slow death....
Always have a backup of your work man... Two backups on two different hard drives isnt even that outrageous.
plague_rider
Coffee
Fox Mulder
The Truth Is Out There
Dude, I faced this several time with Pro Tools as well. Everything kept on disappearing into thin air. I'd open a session and find every goddamn track to be empty. 
Later on what I did was: I opened up one of those session backup files, and viola!
Later on what I did was: I opened up one of those session backup files, and viola!
Unless you've added 1gb of data to that drive between the files disappearing and now, most of them should still be there.
From what I understand, windows doesn't delete files it just marks them as free space and allows them to be overwritten and if you have enough free space on your drive, chances are nothing's been overwritten yet.
You should probably do a backup of what's left before more gets deleted, if you havn't done so already.
From what I understand, windows doesn't delete files it just marks them as free space and allows them to be overwritten and if you have enough free space on your drive, chances are nothing's been overwritten yet.
You should probably do a backup of what's left before more gets deleted, if you havn't done so already.
LeSedna
Mat or Mateo
I've read it happened to some people on reaper too, but this thread seems to tell it's a problem happening to all DAWs.
It may be
1/strange preferences on Reaper you didn't even bother changing but changed anyway
2/a pb of project management, you opened some projects after another one, recorded tracks again, maybe it deleted the original tracks that stayed on the edfault recording folder, anything like that
3/hdd pb.
I personnally have a 1To HD for that purpose. I use the built-in copy software that would copy all my important folders in one of that HD folder. I always have 2 copies of what I do. So this can only happen to me if I forget to save things. It is also set to only copy things. It doesn't synchronise, so that if I delete something and a month later need to find it again, it's on the HD at the good old place.
It may be
1/strange preferences on Reaper you didn't even bother changing but changed anyway
2/a pb of project management, you opened some projects after another one, recorded tracks again, maybe it deleted the original tracks that stayed on the edfault recording folder, anything like that
3/hdd pb.
I personnally have a 1To HD for that purpose. I use the built-in copy software that would copy all my important folders in one of that HD folder. I always have 2 copies of what I do. So this can only happen to me if I forget to save things. It is also set to only copy things. It doesn't synchronise, so that if I delete something and a month later need to find it again, it's on the HD at the good old place.
LeSedna
Mat or Mateo
Really, all you guys, buy an external HD. Look at the price and compare it to all your gear. It's "CHEAP".
LeSedna
Mat or Mateo
Dude, I faced this several time with Pro Tools as well. Everything kept on disappearing into thin air. I'd open a session and find every goddamn track to be empty.
Later on what I did was: I opened up one of those session backup files, and viola!
I'm french and actually, it's spelled "voila" (precisely : "voilà")
ze kink
THE BLACK WIZARDS
I've had a few tracks go missing with Reaper myself, but it was completely my own fault. I'd deleted some guitar tracks accidentally when I was cutting the tracks up, and at some point I emptied the project folder of unnecessary stuff, and only after that I noticed I'd deleted them, and they were completely gone already. It was an intro to one of the tracks, and sadly we didn't have a chance to re-record it. Nobody knows it's missing, but it still annoys me that it's missing because of my fuckup.
LeSedna
Mat or Mateo
This is always the same thing for me : when it's time to clean the project, if you don't wanna use the cleansing action of your DAW, best is to save again the project to a new folder with the "copy media to the same folder". Then you delete the first folder. Done. Before that, I never even try to clean my folder !
Fox Mulder
The Truth Is Out There
I'm french and actually, it's spelled "voila" (precisely : "voilà")
Je suis désolé, Monsieur.
LeSedna
Mat or Mateo
joeymusicguy
Member
TheDriller
Member
im just waiting for the ReaEvangelists to see this and come down hard on you Joey!!!!
The spark
Klaatu.. Barada.. Nikto..
I may be paranoid, but Ive done backups in the middle of sessions if there is a break in the action. Hard drives, I just dont trust them!
