Lost a whole day of editing because I forgot to hit save

I was at a coffee shop in Austin last Tuesday, working on a video project. Had like 3 hours of color grading done. Then my laptop battery died. Opened it back up and realized I'd been working in a temp file that never saved. The autosave was set to 30 minutes but the file got corrupted. I spent the next 4 hours redoing everything from a rough export. Now I check my save folder every 15 minutes. Has anyone else had a software glitch wipe out hours of work like that?

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brian_murray4mo ago

Nvidia ShadowPlay once ate 8 hours of 4K footage because their overlay driver crashed silently during a session. Nobody talks about how GPU recording software rarely tells you when the file is actually toast until you go to export. Autosave fails differently depending on whether the crash is in your editing app versus a system level driver issue.

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janaf914mo ago

Yeah, "lost a whole day" hits hard. I read something online about how most people don't realize temp files can just vanish like that. Super frustrating when autosave feels like a safety net but isn't.

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