Lost Project File

[Gabe!]

I have been working for months on a project of mine. It was just starting to get really good, too, until my computer kept freezing. I saved my work and then held down the power button on my laptop until it turned off. Now I've turned my laptop back on and everything is safe EXCEPT for the project file. I have the application and all of the save files. I still have all of the graphics and audio and such, just not the project file itself. Is there any way that I can retrieve it from somewhere, somehow? Please help!

 

[Shaz]

Create a new project and copy the project file from the new project into your old project.  Once you get past that though, it might give you similar errors with your database file.


Is there any chance your project is saved in a location that's backed up to an online repository?  Like steam, dropbox, onedrive, skydrive, etc?  If it is, I'd move it asap, because after saving your work, it still has to sync with the online source, and if the computer shuts down while that's happening, it could be devastating to your project files.

 

[Gabe!]

Create a new project and copy the project file from the new project into your old project.  Once you get past that though, it might give you similar errors with your database file.

I actually tried that right before you answered this and it works perfectly well so far. Thank you so much! I'll definitely be a lot more careful with my work now and back it up online.

 

[Shaz]

Just make sure you don't use an auto-syncing thing - if you back it up to dropbox, do it by having your project in a non-dropbox folder, and then copy it over to the dropbox folder whenever you want to back up.  An on-site backup would be fine, too.