<div dir="ltr">I have forwarded this valuable information to you, and I hope it is not too late.<br>I understand that a programmer likes to play with the code and do wonders, but you should consider that a video application is focused on people who are NOT computer scientists and that their knowledge is very basic. And these options "cheat" rather than facilitate the work they make it difficult. The audiovisual technicians must be given the simple tools. I do not know of any application that I work with in my audiovisual professional field that has the ability to step on a backup by user interaction.<br>To justify this I would tell you an anecdote that happened during the production of "Finding Nemo" by Andrew Stanton at Pixar. But I think I bore you with my long writings and I don't see an initiative to correct these "traps" that Cinelerra contains. Rather the opposite, a strong attitude in maintaining them.<br>Perhaps it could be done as in Kdenlive, Adobe etc.., which after a sudden shutdown at the next start gives the option to recover the file that was being worked with. But I usually go to practicality and if something is not useful I eliminate it, I think that eliminating these options (also the batch render option) is easier than making special menus for them or what I just mentioned from kdenlive, which is usually what What applications do after a sudden shutdown.<br>Anyway, thank you very much for the information, I know that some time ago you mentioned this about the backup, but I did not remember very well what it was like, and this user I suppose that when he wrote to me he would have already done tests that they will have overwritten this .prev file<br>Greetings Phyllis.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El lun, 11 ene 2021 a las 21:56, Phyllis Smith via Cin (<<a href="mailto:cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org">cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org</a>>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">RafaMar: <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">gave the option "Save backup" instead of "Load backup" and the poor man
was desperate wondering if there was any way to get his work back, <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">from the Manual, section 4.4.3:</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><i>"There is still 1 more backup that may save you. If for some reason you forgot to use Load backup immediately when restarting or you did a Load with Replace current project in your current session, you have a second chance to use File → Load and select $HOME/.bcast5/backup.prev as long as you only loaded a different file and have performed no editing operations."</i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I just tested this to verify that it works as stated.<br></div></div><br></div>
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