you know what was a horrible idea? - Ctrl S for save

⌘S in this situation. so i wrote this wicked song in ableton a while back, and a couple weeks ago i wanted to hear it as a club dance track, so i deleted the drum track and started laying down this big club beat. i was making the first bar, using the duplicate function to quicken the process with the ⌘D function, the d key being right beside the s key. so i accidentally saved over my awesome song with this cheesy club version. i was not worried, as i had backed up the song on my external HD. i told myself i would just swap the original file back over after i made the dance version. well, when i was backing up the dance version, i must have accidentally dragged the newly saved version of the original over to the external HD, because now both version of the song are of the dance version, and all my beats are gone

what a stupid idea for ableton to allow ctrl s to be right beside the commonly used duplicate hot key. so i guess now im wondering if somehow my computer has the old file sitting around somewhere, you know, like when you delete a file but it is often still actually there, or something. ive also got this project.cfg file that ableton made in the folder on my backup, but i dont think that can help me. im running OSX 10.5.8, if anyone can help that would be a blast. thanks

You should post this over at the Feature Wishlist section at Ableton and maybe the Help section to see how other people have dealt with this situation.

The answer is to learn to "save as" as soon as you're thinking of taking your tune in a new direction

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so i deleted the drum track and started laying down this big club beat.

LOL

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all my beats are gone

MEGALOL

As though a different shortcut could prevent someone from being a total asshat. Who wants to chip in to get this poor sod a subscription to PC Novice?

ET accidentally the whole thing, blames computer.

that blows. If you still had the session open you could undo and then save a version from before you were a knob.

But ya. You should get some kind of versioning system going.

ya i make many different versions of tracks all the time, im usually pretty good with this. so....is there an old file of this somewhere on my computer or is it gone forever?

sounds like it's gone man. Unless you are some kind of military level data recovery expert.

Probably not considering that you overwrote the original file, but try Recuva for the hell of it. Point it to the directory where you had the file saved—you may have to sift through a ton of shit.

⌘-S does not equal Ctrl-S

  On 11/29/2011 at 5:27 AM, chimera slot mom said:

The answer is to learn to "save as" as soon as you're thinking of taking your tune in a new direction

qtf