Re: FLASH: Lost FLA file\ thanks jd

[Chris de Deugd]

Dear John Dowdell,


Thanks for your help, I will certainly keep it in mind.

I made the very foolish mistake to think that a FLA could not be overwritten

by an AIFF file, (or any other sort of file ) which had the same name. I was

so shocked when it did, that I wasn't too clear about the problem. I didn't

really 'lose' it - I replaced it's contents for something else.


Had I only made a regular back up..

Nevertheless, I find that the remaining SWF gives a lot of information,

because of it's frame by frame playback option: I am still working on the

reconstruction, but it is going very well.


Thanks for your advice.


Chris de Deugd

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John Dowdell wrote:


> At 9:58 AM 3/7/0, Chris de Deugd wrote:

> > Just lost the .fla of a film I'm working on.

> > Someone please help !

>

> If this was in Flash 4.0, then the new "Clap Hands" feature will let you

> find it no matter where it was misplaced. (Okay, that was my weak attempt

> at humor.... ;-)

>

> Chris, I'm sorry you lost your file, but I'm not sure how others can help.

> If it's somewhere among the folders then that's one thing, but if the

> computer's plug got pulled while working on the only copy of a file, that's

> another thing entirely.

>

> I don't know if the following will help in this situation, but it's useful

> across _all_ computer work:

>

> --  Do a "Save" of the file after every minor milestone... every ten

> minutes or so, whenever you take a breathing spot

>

> --  Do a "Save As" to a backup copy after every major milestone, perhaps

> every hour or so. This gives you a trail of archives, and lets you quickly

> backtrack and change your mind, or avoid potential file damage... it gives

> you an archive.

>

> --  Save to another drive after every session. They say the only people who

> haven't lost a hard drive are those who will, so archiving your editable

> files to a different drive will protect against this class of problems.

>

> (The SWF file just contains the delivery artwork, and doesn't contain the

> range of editing structures in the FLA file... this is similar to how a

> Shockwave DCR doesn't contain the range of editing structures in a Director

> DIR, or how a Fireworks GIF doesn't have the range of editing structures in

> a Fireworks PNG file. We can't reconstruct editing structures from the bare

> delivery file, so it's very important to keep a range of backups as the

> work progresses.)

>

> I don't know if the above was of help, but I hope your project gets back on

> track.

>

> jd

>

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