xlights crash 21016.49- how to recover work

[fatcat46]

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?

[keithsw1111]

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.

[Gilrock]

Yes it probably did save automatically.  We just don't "restore" automatically.  You gotta go find the appropriate backup file .xbkp like Keith said.

[fatcat46]

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.

[kevinp]

Page 120 of the latest user manual (45).  Look under the recovery heading.

[Gilrock]

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.

[fatcat46]

Thanks again guys. You are life savers!  I had an older version of the manual. I am all recovered. Onward and upward!