THANK YOU JOEP46! you have just scared the crap out of me.
 
"Major BACKUP now in progress"
 
 
@ Chregg. Posting that link was extremely immature of you.  My link is much more appropriate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIXg9KUiy00

Not sure if it will work in this case, but you may be able to use Piriform's Recuva to locate and restore any audio files (possibly MIDI) that have been inadvertently deleted.  It's worked for me once in the past when needing to locate a friend's guitar work I'd accidentally deleted.  Hope it helps.
 
http://www.piriform.com/recuva

I don't think the OP is for real. For one, all the audio is on the hardrive if he indeed did record it. He mentions other daws, so surely he is expert enough to know that sonar creates an audio file for each clip. It doesn't sound like he had hard drive failure for his total computer, or at least he didn't mention it. With his total of 3 posts and the final one being this odd flame, I say delete and move on.

@ glenn lol

Yeah - it's just fun to make fun of him at this point - even if he disappeared like his data.

Bob Bone

Good point. I myself do not use auto-save, because I like to know precisely where I was when a save took place
 

Bob - Autosave contrary to popular belief doesn't overwrite or change your regular file in anyway. It creates and saves to a completely new project called "Autosave copy of....."
 
I often see users saying they don't use autosave because they want to choose when to save etc. You can still do that, save when you want to the original file. Autosave just creates an independent backup file that you can go back to if needed.
 
While I'm on the subject of autosave myths..... it won't autosave while the transport is running either. That's another common one I see.......... I don't use autosave 'cos I don't want it to save a file while I'm in the middle of a critical recording....
 
I can think of no reason not to have it on. Even if you never need the file it creates it makes no difference to the original file or your system in any way other than use a few extra kb of HD space. Remember it's just a pointer file to the audio etc.

You have sunk so low that you have even lost me.

joep46

Well, having lost Joep46 we might as well all go home...


Or, since http://www.speeddate.com/personals-in-boston-massachusetts-united-states/4635085/joep46.html says everything is about him we should congratulate him on his ongoing singleness and hope he finds a DAW worth of his  "searing leads" and "syncopated synth line(s)" Oh, wait... he promised himself he would never let this happen again. 


ggg

Thanks - I knew about the multiple copies - you can tell it how many.  And, for some reason I knew about it not doing that while the transport is running.

I choose not to use it because I would never know exactly what changes were in it, and it would take me too much time and brain scratching to determine the exact point that changes were backed up.  Sure, it tells me in a time stamp, but there is no 'what-stamp'.

By just saving often - when I complete some group of edits or after a take that I like, or some small landmark, Ican ALWAYS know where I left off - I put it in the notes.  I am left handed - maybe that has something to do with it.

Personal choice thing - I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree that there is no REASON, nor any valid EXCUSE for not having things backed up in some kind of deliberate and cohesive fashion.

Flog EM FLOG EM ALL (that don't back up)

Bob Bone

Hopefully when the dust settles, the OP will find his tracks somewhere on his hard disk.  I would probably be equally emotional and saying all kinds of things in that situation.

In case it is helpful:
- Technicians who work on DAW problems tell me Cakewalk is as stable as any.  I suppose that doesn't help if you are the one who lost work, but it is good to know.  (I hear good things about Studio v2, but it is too new to evaluate stability compared to others.)
- While working on a file, I alternate saves between my internal D drive and an external drive.  Periodically, I change the version number so I always have an internal and external copy of the current version and past versions.
- The worst case scenario is that something is corrupted, you don't realize it, and you save the file in both places: but if you have previous versions at least you are not starting from zero.

God luck and sorry for your pain.

I will LEAP into action to help Joe if he ever comes back.

Our responses our I believe largely as cruel as they are because of the manner and tone of his posts, the fact that there were only 3 of them, and that he did not seem to have ANY interest whatsoever in giving us any information to try to help him,despite several of us offering to do so.

Once we got to that point, it was simply a case of: Wabbit season! Duck Season!, etc.

Bob Bone