Thanks J-S,

No problem with my house-keeping. The back-up of the file meant maybe 10 
minutes of work was lost if that. I code my files by date so that they are 
unique to a day and then the episode code, then the "take" code, then the 
render edition then the frame count .... so that 
100112-dz2-RobotFallsIntoSpaghetti-aa500 .... means that the file automatically 
sorts to date modified since the file name begins the date, etc. (10-01-12 is 
2010/01/12th)

N.



________________________________
From: Jean-Sebastien Perron <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Mon, 11 January, 2010 2:37:59 PM
Subject: Re: UI - Select Window Filter

Solution for next time:

Never save your project on the same name twice.
Example : 
myproject0000.rs
myproject0001.rs
myproject0002.rs
myproject0003.rs
myproject0004.rs
myproject0005.rs
...
myproject0110.rs
myproject0111.rs
...

And also doing a lot of backup with dates on CD, USB Key, External HD
and put them at work, give them to relatives and friends you trust.

backup_myproject_2009_10_24.zip
backup_myproject_2009_12_07.zip
backup_myproject_2010_01_09.zip

This is the bullet proof technique for anything bad that can happened
in computer world
Also having project files at all the steps makes an incredibly powerful
undo.

I have no pity for you (and all the others that looses stuff on
computer), you should already know by now that computers have never
been reliable, surely not softwares and especially not yourself (I was
not referring to you in particular but all users).

Hope you find the missing stuff Neil in your project.
And show us more good stuff.

------------------------------------------------
Not to put a shameless plug here, but my software CombadZ has solved
this problem for ever.
If the users don't want to do it by themselves, force them or do it for
them.
By the way it is now working on Linux/Win/Mac to be released next year.

Jean-Sebastien Perron
www.NeuroWorld.ws

Neil Cooke wrote: 
> 
>Hi List,
>
>
>I have just lost half my project.
>
>
>Quite often i accidently activate a "filter" path in a window at
>the lower left under the select window on the worktop... Easy enough to
>then delete everything there so nothing is filtered from the select
>window. A bit of a bother but no big deal.
>
>
>This time I must have done that but can not find that particular
>window to clear it. So now i can only select and work with the items
>that remain although all other objects can be called to the screen but
>not the select window nor can they be selected within the screen. I can
>find no documentation for this thing. I would have expected it to exist
>as an option window in the "view" menu but either it has a different
>name or doesnt exist there.
>
>
>Where is the rest of my project? How do I get it back? How do i
>stop this ever happening again? And similar questions...
>
>
>TIA
>
>
>Neil Cooke

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