Recovering Lost recordings??

The .wav files are most likely still there, but you'll have to create another project, drag them in, and try to align them.

You should go in to Properties and enable Auto-Save with Versioning.

It's a life saver.

It doesn't save your project, but it saves a copy of it with the words 'Auto-Save' in the name. When you exit Sonar, you'll still have to save your original project.

And even then, if you don't have versioning enabled, you can get a crash and your 'Auto-Save' file can get corrupted. This happened to me a few days ago. Fortunately, I had 'Versioning' enabled and I was able to go back in and load a copy of it.

Sorry, probably not what you wanted to hear.

Yeah any audio recording you did should be in the audio folder. 

I just wish Sonar had an option to auto-save MIDI clips in a folder as well. 

Auto-saving MIDI clips into a folder would make things more organized as well, especially when songwriting. 

In Pro Tools for instance, you can always access a clip browser which lists all of the clips in the project. So if you're experimenting with different MIDI drum patterns and you have them all labeled e.g. "Drums 1a, Drums 1b, Drums 2aFILL" etc, you can access them in the clip browser and drag them into your drum track when composing the song. This is a little more cumbersome in Sonar - You end up having a whole bunch of clips in the track which you're shuffling around - in fact the track becomes something of a storage space for clips that you may or may not be using. I either have an area at the start of the project set aside for storing clips, or I create a separate MIDI track just to store them. It's a pain and projects quickly become a mess. 

Of course you can make your own MIDI clip folder and drag clips across to it (this is what I should do, really), but it would be much better if Sonar had a tab in the browser which listed all of the clips you've made. And for this purpose, it would be great if Sonar had an option to auto-name clips as well, again much like ProTools. So you have a track called RhodesKeys, and every clip you make would be auto-named according to some convention, like RhodesKeys1, RhodesKeys2 etc. And they're all listed in the clip browser. Deleting them in the track would not delete them from the project, unless of course you selected something from the right-click menu to do that (or an optional setting) 

But I'm just getting carried away with my fantasies here...

Do yourself a favor. Make a sticky and put it on your screen to remind you to save every now and then. 
I keybinded my 'S' to save and after each tweak i do, i just press the 'S' on my qwerty keyboard and it saves it. Its second nature to me.


I don't like autosave, as i like to be in control over my saves and when it is saved.

Also, get a couple hard drives, external & internal and back up each session onto these drives. Always have 3 copies of everything and keep one copy off site.

CJ

+1

CJaysMusic


Do yourself a favor. Make a sticky and put it on your screen to remind you to save every now and then. 
I keybinded my 'S' to save and after each tweak i do, i just press the 'S' on my qwerty keyboard and it saves it. Its second nature to me.


I don't like autosave, as i like to be in control over my saves and when it is saved.

Also, get a couple hard drives, external & internal and back up each session onto these drives. Always have 3 copies of everything and keep one copy off site.

CJ