Projects saved onto CD/DVD via the backup function can be restored to the hard disk as follows:
Copy the whole contents of all backup CDs/DVDs of a project into a new directory on your hard disk (e.g. via Windows Explorer). When copying back data from several CDs/DVDs, you may be confronted with messages asking you whether files Backup.map and the project file (*.w6) are to be overwritten. You can answer Yes without any problems since there will always be several copies of these files available on the backup media anyway.
Double-click the project file which can be recognized by the file extension *.w6, or *.w5, *.pt4, *.pt3, *.ptp for older projects. While loading, Wings Vioso RX offers to search for the required files. Specify the corresponding folder or at least the target drive. See also Searching for missing files.
Save the successfully loaded project again to save the altered pathnames along with it.
Backup copies do not usually contain any display data. This is why you should now create all the necessary display data. See Creating display data for media files.
Just in case you happen to have accidentally overwritten a project file during a normal saving operation it may be important to know that Wings Vioso RX saves the previous version as Name.w6.bak file in the same folder. To be able to open the file you need to remove the file extension .bak.
Moreover, the last
10 backup copies are located in folder Autosave,
with Backup_0.w6
being the latest file. Open folder Autosave
by clicking Extras in the
main menu followed by Open folder
Autosave.
This file and any other older backup copies can simply be opened by
double-clicking them and saving them in the corresponding project
folder under a different name. See also Options
- Global Options - Save.
In the rare event
of a crash, Wings Vioso RX
attempts to save the last version of the project. This project
can be found in folder Report
and is called Report.w6.
Open folder Report by clicking
Extras in the main menu followed
by Open folder
Report. However, there is
no guarantee that the project is not corrupted. It is therefore
essential to check the project.
See also Sending a crash report.