SONAR CRASHES - Project Disappears. Autosave Copy Remains.

What method are you using to open the "lost" file(s)? The Quickstart dialog or the global menus File > Open method?
 
The reason I ask is I have indeed had projects crash (with X1 and X2... none with X3 so far except one time when I was being stupid) and when I reopened the program to reopen the project it no longer appeared in my Quickstart projects menu BUT if I closed the QUickstart and went to File > Open they were indeed still there in the folder I had last saved them to and opened normally.
 
The other thing I would suggest to avoid this from happening, because I have COMPLETELY lost Save As versions of projects (as far as I can tell but they are likely lurking somewhere on the DAW and I may just be imagining this), is that when you are at a critical enough juncture in your project to go to the bother of using Save As to create a version point of the project (like bass tracking done, rhythm guit done, pre-mix editing done, etc) is to do the Save As then CLOSE Sonar completely. That has always guaranteed that if the project crashes hard that I will be able to open that version from the File > Open menu. Without first closing the project after creating the Save As I have had versions disappear and all work lost (as far as I can tell). Again this only happened with X1 and X2 but I have not had any real crashes that lost material with X3. I'm assuming it could still happen though so I always follow that procedure to avoid that possibility.
 
Hopefully that helps... but yes if you are experiencing a lot of crashes and project loss then you need to do some work figuring out what is causing it.
 
Cheers.

Thanks Beepster ...that sounds like a good safe way to ensure projects are protected as it were...
 
I've had this problem over the years... although the incident of reliable work is far greater than crashing ...today it seems multiple instances of Melodyne (used as region FX) are most likely the problem...
I'll also up the buffer as I proceed today...

I suggest...
 
Try excluding the folder where you save your files from your virus scanner.
Also from an administrative command prompt run chkdsk /F
Always back up to something like an external hard drive.
 
Thanks.

Thanks Cake Alex ... I will try that the virus exclusion ...
CURIOUS ...what will chkdisk F do in this instance?
 
Thank You Beepster! I use the File Menu to locate after crashes... you're right ...the original never appears in the Quickstart pull down after a crash....

I've seen it mentioned a few times that it's best to do whatever it is you need melodyne to do then bounce it to avoid problems (and if you think you may want to return to the original clip to make a copy before messing with it... obviously). I could definitely see having multiple open instances of melodyne causing issues.

Melodyne : cut up the track into small pieces.

After 4 or 5 "corrections" bounce the track. Then go on to the next few regions etc. Works for me like that just fine. Yes its a PITA to do things small wise but who cares, i've never lost data by doing it that way.

Cheers,
Jerry

musec03
The point of this post is to report that project files simply disappear when the program crashes...

is "write caching" disabled in device manager, for the hd where the files "disappear"?