Sean Meighan
Welcome => Do You Need Help? Post it here => Topic started by: fatcat46 on September 15, 2016, 06:56:32 PM
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I have Xlights set to save every 3 min. It just crashed and I lost at least two hours of work because it didn't save automatically. Is there some way I can recover my work? >:(
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There is. I believe the manual discusses it in some detail. Basically the xbkp file is your auto saved version of your sequence file. Just rename it.
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Yes it probably did save automatically. We just don't "restore" automatically. You gotta go find the appropriate backup file .xbkp like Keith said.
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Thanks guys. I found lots of backup folders. I assume I rename the backup file to xml. Unfortunately none of them have anywhere near what my changes were. I also don't find anything in the manual.
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Page 120 of the latest user manual (45). Look under the recovery heading.
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Well you've probably been getting new autosave files/directories as you've been trying to run the program to fix this problem so the last good autosave may be several versions back. I would think you could look at the date/time stamps on the files/directories to find one near where it happened. Depending on what you were working on you will need to restore the xlights_rgbeffects.xml file along with the <sequence>.xml file.
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Thanks again guys. You are life savers! I had an older version of the manual. I am all recovered. Onward and upward!