Early this morning, I was working in my .tvpp file, which I have been working on/off with for approximately a year now.
It's a frivolous project, mainly for fun and practicing the use of TVP, however, I worked with this project very intensely.
The file was around 1GB in size (+/-) depending on how often I would merge layers and delete roughs/storyboard layers as the completion gradually came along.
954 MB since last it was saved.
While casually drawing on a frame within the file, my PC froze.
(I've been blaming this on either Avast Antivirus or Windows Auto-Updates/Maintenance, as it occasionally happens, usually around the time where these become the most active).
I let my PC sit for a while, frozen, but ruled out that it was going to come around, so I rebooted my PC, mournfully, as I was losing at least 45 minutes of unsaved work.
Allowing my PC to fully reboot and load up everything, before popping back into TVP to survey the loss.
I go to my recently opened file and pick out my usual work file, click it and wait; being a 1GB file, it would usually take a while to load, so I was used to staring at a blank canvas for a few seconds, before the loading bar and the file would actually load up... but the blank canvas remained.
Trying again, thinking I had miss-clicked from the drop menu. Still not loading.
Instead, I go into the file path to open the file directly out of the folder and I click it there, but it still takes me to a blank canvas.
I look at it again in the file path and I see something weird. Where it says Resolution, it gives me a "?" where all other TVPP and image files neatly state their resolution.
They all state a file size too and my TVPP file which I attempt to open also normally states 1GB, so I assume my data was still present within the file.
I get quite nervous, yet inquisitive as the file SHOULD be unscathed, seeing as how I was NOT SAVING the file at the time of the crash,
but merely drawing with my tablet pen on the screen at the time where the crash occurred.
I take a few copies of my troubled file to see if renaming them in a different folder and reopening them would do something for me, but nothing.
In an attempt to see if I could actually view if some of the meta data was missing from the file, I try to open a different, unrelated TVPP file as a TXT file to virtually see the data, for comparison.
This other TVPP file, as expected, had a nice big chunk of meta data, stating its name, resolution, frame rate and everything,
so I go take a look at my troubled TVPP(copy) file . There are nothing by blank symbols(spaces), all the way through each and every one of those 954 MB worth of data.
Is my hard work completely destroyed? If so. How? and Why?
Even if I wasn't saving the file, at the time of the crash?
Before you ask, yes, I DID indeed have a backup file... from the 25th last month, which is now 2 weeks ago, and because I wanted to finish the file for the 25th of THIS month, I had been working myself to the bones to get this done on time and I had an estimated amount of 1-2 weeks left to go, to clean, color and shade the final missing frames.
As I wrote this, I looked at my saved two-weeks old backups as well as a sampled AVI file, 3 days later than my back-up, the amount and extent of the work I had done in those past two weeks is pretty intense and a lot of it, I was quite proud of... redoing all of this would be beyond traumatic.
Is there anything I can do at all?
A previous post stating corrupted files (where a PC shuts down while saving) requested their computer specs, so here are mine:
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Windows 8
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
ASUS Desktip PC CG8270 Series
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.40GHz
12GB RAM
64 bit OS, x64-based processor
WACOM Cintiq21x
hidkmdf.sys: Windows (R) Win 7 DKK provider. File ver. 6.1.7600.16385
wachidrouter.sys: Wacom Technology 1.2.0001.5
wdfcoinstaller01009.dll: Microsoft Corp. 1.9.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
TVP Animation 10 Pro (10.5.7-64 bits) - (fully updated version.)
) and I almost prefer working this way now, as I have easier access to frames of each character, instead of having to scroll through hundreds to locate, saving many seconds in the process, so I might actually be able to catch up, even though it's a lot of work ahead of me.
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