My project disappeared - nothing in the timeline Topic is solved

[BruceM]

Help! I am a day into a project and had an issue which required restarting my computer. I made sure that i saved my work before restarting.
When the computer restarted, I clicked on the TVP file, which is on my desktop. TVP opened, but my project isn't visible. There's nothing in the timeline.

I've checked the TVP file on my desktop and it has 8MB stored in it, so I'm thinking that the project must be in there still.
Does anyone have an idea of how I can retrieve my project?

[slowtiger]

Most likely: click "project" in the timeline panel, then choose your clip.

[BruceM]

Slowtiger,

I tried that and what I'm seeing in the "project" view is this image attached. There are two vertical white rectangles with horizontal green lines through them, and I can see tiny type at the top of the frame with my project title in it.
When I click on them, it simply pops back to the timeline view.

[BruceM]

Oops, I forgot to attach the image. Here it is...

[slowtiger]

You see the 2 clips inside your project. One of them is empty. The other one should contain your artwork.

[BruceM]

You're right! When I click on the right side rectangle, and then drag my curser along the timeline, the images are there. My problem now is that I don't know how to get that clip to open into the normal timeline, with the different layers, where I can continue to work on it.
Do you know how I can get that to happen?

[slowtiger]

See manual about project and clip.

[BruceM]

I've gone through the Project and Clip portion of the manual, but am still not understanding how to get my timeline view back with my project in it.
I don't mean to be a pest, but I'm running out of time. Can you give me a clue?

[slowtiger]

Didn't you ever doubleclick on one of the rectangles? These 2 are your clips. One empty, one (hopefully) full. There's 2 riders there: project and timeline to switch between these views.

[BruceM]

Yes, I've been trying that. When I double click on them individually, all that it's doing it popping the view back to the Timeline view, which shows nothing in it but the single empty instance with two dark horizontal bands - one across the top and one across the bottom (image attached).
When I single click on the Project on frame 2 (the right side rectangle), it makes it so that if I drag the curser across the timeline, I can see my animation drawings appearing in the project window. However, there's still nothing appearing in the timeline - no drawings, no levels, etc..

Does it sound like what I'm experiencing is possibly software glitch?

[slowtiger]

OK, that sounds like something buggy. You need help from admins.

[Paul Fierlinger]

Have you tried reinstalling TVP?

[Thierry]

*issue solved via email with Bruce *

[Paul Fierlinger]

Thierry, would you mind telling us what went wrong so that we can all learn from it. I'm also curious to hear if it's just a MAC issue or not?