Two hours work wasted

[Kapitan_Phillips]

So I was working on a new painting on Corel Painter. Spent two hours perfecting a picture of Ed from Shaun of the Dead. Program error, program closes itself, no backup was saved.



Anyone know how I can recover it?

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

So I was working on a new painting on Corel Painter. Spent two hours perfecting a picture of Ed from Shaun of the Dead. Program error, program closes itself, no backup was saved.



Anyone know how I can recover it?

nodda you can do I bet. SHould be a good lesson on hitting that save button occasionally on long projects. I hate learning the hard way, but everyone has been their before that deals with computers. We have all done something similar.

-S

PS. There is the off chance that Corel has implemented a auto save feature, but it is slim. Usually only programs like Word or Excel have these features.

[Jimbuna]

It's a real bummer mate, used to happen to me with MS Publisher. I soon remembered to save frequently

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

nodda you can do I bet. SHould be a good lesson on hitting that save button occasionally on long projects. I hate learning the hard way, but everyone has been their before that deals with computers. We have all done something similar.

-S

PS. There is the off chance that Corel has implemented a auto save feature, but it is slim. Usually only programs like Word or Excel have these features.

It did, it came up with a box saying "Save current documents and exit", but it didnt save anything.

[Skybird]

I hate to say it but: regular manual saving.

[nikimcbee]

I suggest: a lot of for letter words, steel-toed boots, 40 7.62x39 rounds, and one SKS or Ak-47.

I had wordperfect crash on me, just as I finished a major term paper. I about had a nervous breakdown from anger, fortunately I knew somebody that knew wordperfect well and was able to recover it. (I didn't know there was a recovery feature) But for about 2 hours, I was about ready to throw that computer out the window.

I feel your pain.

[Rotary Crewman]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

I was about ready to throw that computer out the window.

Its those stages you go through. The shock and complete denial that it has happened.

The hope that it can be saved.

Then the pure anger and hatred flows through you when you realised that you have messed up

Go on Kapitan...let the anger flow through you....

[XXi]

Personally... if a programm has autosave option, I use it for every 5 to 15 minutes, depending on work and type of the program. Perhaps not always so handy and excellent, but on few ocasions this habit has saved me a LOT of frustration...


that could eventually explode elsewhere

[Blacklight]

Working with music software all the time also means working with a lot of "plugins" for that software as well. Sometimes, the plugins don't play nice with each other and I get quite a bit of "A HORRIBLE THING HAS HAPPENED AND WINDOWS MUST CLOSE THIS PROGRAM. AS TO WHAT YOU WERE WORKING ON.. TOUGH LUCK PAL ! PppppppT !"
After suffering hundreds of those crashes, I nowmake sure I save every ten minutes or so. (My software has a nice feature that will do this automatically).

Save often. Back up to multiple devices once a day.

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Originally Posted by Blacklight

Working with music software all the time also means working with a lot of "plugins" for that software as well. Sometimes, the plugins don't play nice with each other and I get quite a bit of "A HORRIBLE THING HAS HAPPENED AND WINDOWS MUST CLOSE THIS PROGRAM. AS TO WHAT YOU WERE WORKING ON.. TOUGH LUCK PAL ! PppppppT !"
After suffering hundreds of those crashes, I nowmake sure I save every ten minutes or so. (My software has a nice feature that will do this automatically).

Save often. Back up to multiple devices once a day.

Cubase sucks for that :rotfl:

"Hmm.. You just loaded a VSTi demo.. hmm...NOPE. FZZT"

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

I suggest: a lot of for letter words, steel-toed boots, 40 7.62x39 rounds, and one SKS or Ak-47.

Not quite as entertaining as an M107 and a lot of .50 cal rds to go with!

-S

[TteFAboB]

You should've played more unstable games.

After enough of them, you learn to manually save very often.

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Not quite as entertaining as an M107 and a lot of .50 cal rds to go with!

-S

What about donating it to test out the AA-12 Automatic shotgun

HunterICX

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

What about donating it to test out the AA-12 Automatic shotgun

HunterICX

Nah, I'd just rip the gatling gun section of a CWIS system out, interface it with that new nano-brain device for gamers, then raise holy hell at Electronic Arts and Corel

[Torplexed]

Kapitan Phillips I found this in the CorelPainter help file....


When you work with computers, sometimes uncontrollable events cause files to become corrupt. How can you recover work lost in a corrupt image file? No backup? Do you have to create the whole image again?
Maybe not. Corel Painter records all actions into the Current Script. If Corel Painter is stopped and restarted within 24 hours, the old current script is still available (saved as “{date}{time}”), and a new current script is started. By default, the dated scripts are saved for one day, but you can reset this to a longer time.
The dated scripts can be used to replay actions for recovering lost work or to create scripts for movies. Also, you can use the Script List to cut and paste portions of the dated script that are useful. Just open the dated script, and delete the last few commands; then play the script to re-create the work, and try saving the file again.



Can't say I'm an expert on 'scripts' tho. I usually try to save as I go ever since I lost a file when I rotated the canvas and it exceeded currented memory.