HoWS THiS FoR A PRoBLEM....

[Guevara]

i WAS TRYiN To CREATE MoRE SPACE oN MY PC (i LiTERALLY HAD 0 MB'S) So i BURNED MY FL FiLES To A CD AND DELETED THE SAME FiLES oFF MY CoMPUTER ( i HAVE DoNE THiS BEFoRE).
WHEN i WENT To LoAD oNE oFF THE CD iT SAiD *FiLE CoRRUPTED CANNoT BE oPENED* So i TRiED ANoTHER FiLE, RESTARTED MY CoMPUTER AND TRiED AGAiN.........SAME THiNG.

i SEE KNoCK oUT HAD A SiMiLAR PRoBLEM.
iM NoT REALLY LoOKiN FoR AN EXPLiNATiON BUT THEY SAY MiSERY LoVES CoMPANY, So KNoCK...DoNT FEEL ToO BAD (i ONLY LoST 63 BEATS THoUGH) i SYMPATHiZE WiTH YoU.

 

[nobodyfamous]

yeah...it does that...i even moved my files to another folder and some of them will not open, i dont know why it does that...i lost hella beats before too

 

[RigorMortis]

If your working in fruity, you should save your files in .zip format, cause the .flp format is just kind of a memory file, its got the info on where on your hd the samples are u use and the setting of the beat.. if you save it in .zip format than the whole beat is saved in a zipfile and there is no trouble when a sample gets lost/deleted or when the zip file is moved.

 

[eka]

Originally posted by RigorMortis
If your working in fruity, you should save your files in .zip format, cause the .flp format is just kind of a memory file, its got the info on where on your hd the samples are u use and the setting of the beat.. if you save it in .zip format than the whole beat is saved in a zipfile and there is no trouble when a sample gets lost/deleted or when the zip file is moved.

this is true but I even had them corrupted.
still don't know what was wrong.
as soon as I'm finished in fruity I render them to wav (induvidual tracks) and save them that way.
I can edit and mix them in a multitrack recorder any time.

 

[Guevara]

i WASNT TRYiN To SAVE THE TRACK YET BECAUSE 59 oF THE 63 TRACKS THAT i LoST WERENT DoNE, i LiKE MASS PRoDUCE SHiT JUST To LAY FoUNDATiON AND THEN iLL CoME BACK AND FiNiSH EM UP BUT i TRiED To SAVE THE UNFiNiSHED TRACKS SO i CoULD CoME BACK AND HIT WM UP AT ANoTHER TiME.

 

[Shonsteez]

Thats how i used to work, but now i back all my shit up cuz tha same thing happened to me and i lost 82 songs along with all my samples that i painstakingly cut....Oh well though, you gotta learn tha hard way some times...

 

[Verb]

same shit has happened to me w/ all of my lyrics and songs, shit sucks. Now I make sure I check the CD before I delete files.

 

[Formant024]

There were worse things, when working on FT2 back in the day the program sometimes just decided to quit so you had to reboot into DOS again. That's one track I could've worked on for a whole night which just disappeared, supposing it made a backup.xm file. It gets worse when you forget to rename the backup.xm and start on another track and it hangs again. It overwrites the backup.xm, the track you lost before, again. It's my own stupidity and mostly due smokin', but I have lost countless beats this way.

Off topic, but just sharing the pain you know hehe.

 

[RigorMortis]

Sometimes I've had the problem, that the file was corrupt too or the flp file couldnt be found in the zip, I dont know what the exact reason is for this, my guess is that it didnt save the file correctly. Nowadays I tend to save the file again renaming it by adding 01 , 02 etc.. Cause I hate losing a beat I worked on all night, that is fucked up.. but it can happen.

 

[Cold Truth]

eka had a dope idea....... its would be a good idea to convert everything to a .wav file and save them to disk. actually, what i have done on a few beats is save the .wav file from each loop so it only takes up, say, a minute total worth of time for the pices of the beat- so in theory you could save the "blueprints" of each beat, and take one disk and put 50 beats on it that way. plus, think of the remix possibilities with that (not related to the problem itself)..... just some ideas.

 

[Sober]

damn ...sucks for you guys.

 

[afriquedeluxe]

mayne i feel 4 u . hey i been tryina get at ya but ya pms full, how da live wire joint goin?

 

[Guevara]

oH SHiT i AiNT CHECKED MY PMS iN WEEKS, i AiNT BEEN GETtiN NO EMAiLS EiTHER CUZ iM iN THE MiDDLE oF SWiTCHiN To A DSL.
HE SUPPoSED To BE RECoRDiNG THiS WEEKEND, HE JUST GoT THE FULL TRACK CUZ I FINALLY GOT CHANCE To CoP SoME CDR'S BUT THE TRACK iS DoNE.CiTY!!!