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i lost a track! pls help me

Tragedy19	Date: July 26, 2008 @ 8:57 PM i just started using fruity loops and i was half way writing a song when i realized the melodies for one of my patterns were missing..and history was no help at all..i was wondering if there was anyway to get it back..cos i cant remember how i wrote that track..pls help..
evansorchid	Date: July 27, 2008 @ 2:20 AM I don't use FL, but something similar to that happened to me while using Cakewalk. Basically, while putting a track together my computer lost power before I could save the latest version. Apparantly, everytime that you record a track using Cakewalk it creates backups of each track as a wave file in the Cakewalk folder.....meaning click My computer...click Cakewalk folder.....click on Wave File backup folder....and voila....there it was. It took some time to find it because Cakewalk assigned it some gibberish name like....0923u5ouierhg9348yt190382....but I did find it and all I had to do was import it back into the workfile. I hope that helps.
zedsalt	Date: July 27, 2008 @ 3:34 AM Audacity is absolutely horrible about this sort of thing. I've moved stuff...not even deleted, just moved stuff...that I used to make a track to make a track to make to...well, you get the idea...and had portions of the tracks drop out of the latest project in the chain. One labor-intensive, but possibly useful, thing you might try is remembering/figuring out when you were working on what is now missing and try searching through every file that was altered around that time. A pain in the heinie to be sure, but it might work. Good luck!
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Tragedy19	Date: July 27, 2008 @ 10:15 AM hmm does FL have back up for the files? actually i do remember when i was working on what is missing now and i dont mind looking thru every file that was altered the only problem is i dont know where to look.. i mean im sure its just floating around in the there somewhere..i just need someone to point me at the right direction..im using FL 8 btw if it matters..and thanks for helping out guys
leflaw	Date: July 28, 2008 @ 8:32 AM I would try to search for a file with a ~ ("tilde") in its name, which many programs use as a temp or backup file
pog	Date: July 28, 2008 @ 9:24 AM try looking in C:\Program Files\Image-Line\FL Studio\Trash bin\Backup.flp or Backup.zip If you havn't loaded anything else then it may be there ... also, I think they have a diagnostic thing that may help you recover the file at http://www.flstudio.com/diagnostic More info is kinda needed... is it a fruity loops save file that's missing, or a sample, or a line of data that you spent ages programming and you still have the sample, or were you using a fruity loops generator of some sort?
Tragedy19	Date: July 28, 2008 @ 9:51 PM i have the .flp file buts its not that..im kinda new at this so i dont really know the terms..on pattern 8 i used one of the samples (e.g STR_Cell_C4) and created my own melody using the piano roll then proceeded to the playlist and highlighted the pattern 8 boxes where it was needed..i continue working saving in between and when i was at pattern 11 i think i realize pattern 8 was empty..so whatever i created on pattern was gone and i had already saved it like that..i cudnt undo cos the history is limited..im sure its just there but where..hehe..i hope that brings a little more clarity?
pog	Date: July 28, 2008 @ 11:06 PM If you have saved it this way then off the top of my head, I cannot think of a way to turn back time, unless maybe the files are stored in the windows temp folders... in future, I found out the hard way it's far easier to get in the habit of save as... and having revisions like songa.flp songb.flp songc.flp, etc. so it doesn't happen to you again in future, you can simply roll back and copy paste the data from previous tracks.
Tragedy19	Date: July 30, 2008 @ 6:26 PM yeah so i've learned..i have in fact started saving many copies of my track now..im just glad it happened to me early on a track and since it was the second track i created it wasnt that good neways.. thanks for all your help guys u've been great..

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