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Staples McGee Jan 11, 2014 @ 10:51am
Is session recovery possible?
I was almost finished an animation that took me a VERY long time to make, and SFM randomly crashed. Me being me, I forgot to save any of it. Is there ANY way at all I can recover my session, or am I doomed to create the entire thing all over again? Thank you for your time.
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Pte Jack Jan 11, 2014 @ 3:32pm 
The only way is to check and see if there is a .bak file with the same name as your project, if it exists, then you rename your project.dmx to a new extension and the .bak to .dmx and load that. If it doesn't exist, then you're back to square 1.
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Staples McGee Jan 11, 2014 @ 4:07pm 
Originally posted by Pte Jack:
The only way is to check and see if there is a .bak file with the same name as your project, if it exists, then you rename your project.dmx to a new extension and the .bak to .dmx and load that. If it doesn't exist, then you're back to square 1.

I looked for the .bak file, and it was nowhere to be found. Looks like I'm back to square 1, like you said -.- Thanks for helping, though
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raptornx01 Jan 14, 2014 @ 7:04am 
there is an autosave script floating around. it's not the best, but it will help a bit.
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R234 Jan 14, 2014 @ 10:35am 
Doesn't SFM support autosave since yesterday's update?
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Pte Jack Jan 14, 2014 @ 11:34am 
I'm still trying to catch up with the December update! Yesterday is too far into the future for me!!! lol
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Hakurei Jan 14, 2014 @ 11:47am 
I learned my lesson, save after every pass!
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raptornx01 Jan 14, 2014 @ 2:05pm 
Originally posted by R234:
Doesn't SFM support autosave since yesterday's update?

I actually didn't know about the update till after i made that post. ^_^;
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Staples McGee Jan 14, 2014 @ 2:29pm 
I didn't even know there was an update yesterday... Now that I think about it though, I do remember Steam downlaoding something. That was probably it. Thank God they added autosave-- now I don't need to worry about things like this anymore! :D
Last edited by Staples McGee; Jan 14, 2014 @ 2:29pm
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Pte Jack Jan 14, 2014 @ 6:15pm 
Well it was a long time coming but I guess it shows that the SFM Project is still alive and Valve is listening.
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Hakurei Jan 14, 2014 @ 6:38pm 
There was an update last month, not really that long.
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Pte Jack Jan 14, 2014 @ 6:46pm 
What I meant Berry, is that we've been screaming for the autosave since the launch of SFM. Now we have it...
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Hakurei Jan 14, 2014 @ 7:27pm 
Herp derp, sorry! I misread everything... which isn't new to me. ;3;
While it's a great feature, I suggest everyone saves multiple files for different passes.
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