I actualy store it in my locker at the golf club I play at. Once a week or so I make a copy of my external backup disk onto another external disk and save this somewhere completely separate from my home where my computers are. That way, when I come in the next day and find my computer has been stolen, or my internal disk has crashed, or a virus has infected all my files, or I have become the latest victim of a ransomeware attack, I can relax, safe in the knowledge that I have a copy of all my files on a backup disk that is kept somewhere safe, away from my computer.

That way I have only lost or removed the work I did in the last hour, rather than all of my work.Įvery night I make a backup of all the files on my system(s) to an external disk, it takes just a couple of minutes usually. If my latest file (XXX_8.mlt) becomes corrupt, or I made lots of changes that I really want to get rid of, I can always delete that file, save a copy of XXX_7.mlt to XXX_8.mlt and use that as my Shotcut project file. So at the end of the day I would have multiple projects with names: XXX.mlt, XXX_1.mlt, XXX_2.mlt,…,XXX_8.mlt. This is what I do when I am working on a project, especially a large one:Įvery hour or so I use the File → Save As menu item to save the project with a new name. So this emphasizes the need to have at least 1 previous version. If you do not have a previous version then your only recourse is to start your project again from scratch. If you cannot recover the project file then the next best option is to use a previous version, again making a copy of this before you attempt to use it. Before even attempting to do this always make a copy of the file in case you trash it completely while editing.

Shotcut just crashed and my project is now screwed up, what can I do?ĭepending on the state of the project file (XXX.mlt) you may be able to recover it by editing that file.

My project file has somehow become corrupted, what can I do?.

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