Premiere project killed

[B***@adobeforums.com]

I just tried opening a project and Premiere tells me "The project appears to be damaged, it cannot be opened." Previously, I was editing this project, moving clips on the timeline when Premiere froze solid. Waited 15 minutes or so to see if it would recover but not even Task Manager could be opened. So, I had to reboot which led me to discover the project was damaged.

This is a serious condition that I now believe warrants periodic project backups. Saving your project often is apparently not enough otherwise you risk losing hours or even weeks of work. From now on, it looks like I'll be saving many versions of large projects.
Bob

[J***@adobeforums.com]

Bob, did you disable the auto-save feature? By default Pro saves versions of your project at regular intervals. You should find them in the folder 'Adobe Premiere Pro Auto-Save'.

Jon

[B***@adobeforums.com]

Jon,
I haven't used Auto Save. Maybe I should. I didn't like Auto Save from P6.5 since I think it wrote over the existing file. But if Pro actually saves a different version, then I'll use it.

This has been a bad day. Several lock-ups from just moving clips around and I'm just starting a new wedding project. I'm on the verge of paying for Adobe support. This system is way to unstable.
Bob

[Craig Howard]

Bob: Do you have a Matrox RTX100 card installed by any chance ?

Were you dragging clips in the timeline when you got your "lock up" and is that the usual and only thing that triggers the event ?

[J***@adobeforums.com]

Bob, auto-save is active by default, what I was suggesting was that you might well have a usable copy of the file you've just lost.

What version of Pro are you using? Have you applied the 1.5.1 patch? What is your hardware configuration?

Jon

[m***@adobeforums.com]

jon, you just saved me about 100 hours worth of work. THANKYOU