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Hi all,

I'm having a trouble with disappearing files when saving them. I'm now a bit cautious, so I haven't been doing a lot of testing, but the case seems to be this:

I have a project v3. If I save it, cmd+s, tvp seems to override the project with a different, blank looking file which cannot be opened. Or tvp hides the real project somewhere.
when trying save as, tvp offers this view, where I can still see the real project. But I can't find this masterman_v3.tvpp directly from the finder.
This is worrying, because I can now only find the project from "recent files" menu and.. something is happening, what is it?

Ok, I found out that I had the multi-backup active. While saving that, TVP hides the real project. I don't know for what reason.
Maybe this is old news and the new version of TVP is fixed with these things, but the multi-back up seems to also create non working files on 10.5.7.

Sorry for the hassle, I'll just switch it off and have my own backup-plan!

Have a great day

Hello Kari,

When saving, files are always greyed out to tell you something is happening and you have to wait a little. In the first screenshot, everything is fine : your file can be loaded. That's not related to TVPaint, that's how files are saved on Mac OS.

kariP wrote: seems to also create non working files on 10.5.7.

You just have to drag and drop them in TVPaint or delete the digits that come after .tvpp