HELP! I'm losing takes!

[Naturally Digital]

Hi Perry

Thank you for that! Very much.

Yeah, I have been going against my better judgement on these moves. No doubt about that. But no more!! I may even disable the retake all command in my preferences file in case I slip up at some point.

That's a valuable story you shared... I've been fortunate so far in that I've been working with many friends and referrals. I haven't gotten myself into that situation just yet but I can see it coming. No more erasing for me.

I knew I could count on our support group - SSAA.

OK, I'll go back and take my seat now.

Thanks again Perry.

[SoundSuite]

Dave, I did #1 before myself before if it lets you feel any better.

To the best of my memory, this is how it happened:
-Start SAW, setup an edl as tempstart.edl with tracks labled, etc.
-Hit record, and get the tracks, save to new edl.
-Pull up tempstart.edl, re-arm, record new tracks and save as new edl.
...both final edls had the latest recording in the tempstart_x.wav and were not appended to the original, therefore 'loosing' the previous.

The way around, is like Bob said, set up a folder for each and go from scratch for each...or, pull up tempstart.edl, save as new, THEN record.
Always record AFTER you are working in a unique edl is the rule I follow now

[Ian Alexander]

What would happen if you made tempstart.edl a read-only file?

Nope, just tried it. SS works as expected until you try to save.

[Sean McCoy]

-Start SAW, setup an edl as tempstart.edl with tracks labled, etc.
-Hit record, and get the tracks, save to new edl.
-Pull up tempstart.edl, re-arm, record new tracks and save as new edl.
...both final edls had the latest recording in the tempstart_x.wav and were not appended to the original, therefore 'loosing' the previous.

It's possible that's what I did as well, though I'm reasonably certain I was doing a save as new song and deleting the previous song's regions before recording. But I'm still curious as to why Studio would overwrite those files in that situation rather than appending to them as it normally does. With this idiot at the controls, I need all the idiot-proofing I can get!

[Bob L]

I still cannot get your test to overwrite the files... the files got appended.

But... ALWAYS open the templete and immediately save as the new edl... first... before recording anything... that will guarentee that the files are created according to the new edl name and not be connected in any way to the old edl files.

You can always double-check what files you are writing to by clicking on the Setup zone of the Record panel BEFORE you record... this will show you the path and filename where the track data will go.

Bob L

[Naturally Digital]

I still cannot get your test to overwrite the files... the files got appended.

Yeah, same here. I only lost the files when I used the Retake All command in the second edl made from the master template (as long as you record before doing a Save As. Come to think of it, I guess if you used Retake All in either edl you'd lose the data.

[Naturally Digital]

Dave, I did #1 before myself before if it lets you feel any better.

It does Jon. Thanks.

I had a long session today and followed all the advice presented here... Perfect. Nothing lost, plenty gained!