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Subject:Possible Bug Found? Posted by: prezbass Date:7/10/2001 5:51:04 PM Last nite, while editing a drum overheads stereo pair .WAV file for a project, I had made some changes to the file, and was in the process of saving the changes. (I had opened the track from Vegas by selecting the track, and hitting CTRL+E for "edit") During the save process, I clicked the little "cancel" button at the lower lefthand corner of the screen because I realized that I didn't want to do what I had just done. SoundForge quit the save operation, and gave me no notice that anything was wrong. I then closed the file in SoundForge and returned to Vegas. Vegas now shows the file offline- and guess what- the file had been deleted, even though SoundForge had made no mention of it!!!! I spent the next 2 hours trying various recovery techniques, all to no avail, and now my drum tracks have to be recut. My questions are- 1. Is Sonic Foundry aware of this? 2. Has anyone else ever had this happen? 3. If you did have this happen to you, were you ever able to recover your file, and how did you do it? -Marc Miller Cascade Hills Music mmiller@kendra.com
Subject:RE: Possible Bug Found? Reply by: CDM Date:7/10/2001 6:58:44 PM Do you have Sound Forge set to open Command-Line files in Direct mode? That is to say, does Sound Forge open the Vegas file in Direct mode (red waveform) or in temp mode? (blue waveform). In order for Vegas to open in direct mode in Sound Forge it has to be set to close files when not the active application and Sound Forge Prefs have to be set to Open Command Line files in Direct Mode. That having been said, I haven't had any funkiness with saving. If saving was something you had to cancel, I'm thinking you must have been in temp mode, in which case you should have been given a warning that stopping the save operation would casue the file to be deleted. I just tried this and DID get the message. I would recommend Opening Copy in Sound Forge rather than the Original so you don't have to worry about your original files. It's also cool to have a copy with a different effect in it as a "take" in the event so you can toggle back and forth between them. I just tried to say "yes" to the warning about cancelling a save and it just left the file in tact. Not sure what it means when it says it'll delete it. hope any of this helps.

Subject:Possible Bug Found?

Posted by: prezbass

Date:7/10/2001 5:51:04 PM

Last nite, while editing a drum overheads stereo pair .WAV file for a project, I had made some changes to the file, and was in the process of saving the changes. (I had opened the track from Vegas by selecting the track, and hitting CTRL+E for "edit") During the save process, I clicked the little "cancel" button at the lower lefthand corner of the screen because I realized that I didn't want to do what I had just done. SoundForge quit the save operation, and gave me no notice that anything was wrong. I then closed the file in SoundForge and returned to Vegas.

Vegas now shows the file offline- and guess what- the file had been deleted, even though SoundForge had made no mention of it!!!! I spent the next 2 hours trying various recovery techniques, all to no avail, and now my drum tracks have to be recut.

My questions are-

1. Is Sonic Foundry aware of this?

2. Has anyone else ever had this happen?

3. If you did have this happen to you, were you ever able to recover your file, and how did you do it?

-Marc Miller
Cascade Hills Music
mmiller@kendra.com

Subject:RE: Possible Bug Found?

Reply by: CDM

Date:7/10/2001 6:58:44 PM

Do you have Sound Forge set to open Command-Line files in Direct mode? That is to say, does Sound Forge open the Vegas file in Direct mode (red waveform) or in temp mode? (blue waveform). In order for Vegas to open in direct mode in Sound Forge it has to be set to close files when not the active application and Sound Forge Prefs have to be set to Open Command Line files in Direct Mode.
That having been said, I haven't had any funkiness with saving. If saving was something you had to cancel, I'm thinking you must have been in temp mode, in which case you should have been given a warning that stopping the save operation would casue the file to be deleted. I just tried this and DID get the message. I would recommend Opening Copy in Sound Forge rather than the Original so you don't have to worry about your original files. It's also cool to have a copy with a different effect in it as a "take" in the event so you can toggle back and forth between them.

I just tried to say "yes" to the warning about cancelling a save and it just left the file in tact. Not sure what it means when it says it'll delete it.

hope any of this helps.