DP Project File completely disappeared!

[rosindabow]

I was working late into the night last night. Everything is fine. I quit DP, shut my computer down, went to bed. Woke up this morning, turned my computer on, and went to open up my project file, it was greyed out on the list. No DP file inside the project folder. Nothing - it's like it was lifted out of the folder and trashed. I checked the trash and there was nothing there. I looked in my auto-save folder and there was an auto-save from 7:20pm. I loaded that and thank goodness, that exists. But of course I lost some work ... and now I'm terrified that it will happen again. Like I will do all this work only to find it missing again in the morning. In my 30+ years of using DP, this has never happened. Is there any possible reason why this would have happened and will it happen again?

[cuttime]

Sorry if this is too obvious of a question, but have you checked your Time Machine backup?

[rosindabow]

Hi - I don't use Time Machine, I use a program called Super Duper ... so unfortunately, no.

[bayswater]

I don't think this has happened to me, but no doubt it will sometime. When I'm finished a session, I always copy the project folder to a second drive that contains a duplicates of active projects. The trick is to get into the habit.

On SuperDuper, I used it in the day. TM is not perfect, but neither was SD. Why not try turning TM on and see what you think? The initial backup is a heavy duty session, but after that, you don't even notice it, and don't have to think about it.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I'd start by checking my hard drive health and capacity. Could be a director problem.

[HCMarkus]

I don't think this has happened to me, but no doubt it will sometime. When I'm finished a session, I always copy the project folder to a second drive that contains a duplicates of active projects. The trick is to get into the habit.

On SuperDuper, I used it in the day. TM is not perfect, but neither was SD. Why not try turning TM on and see what you think? The initial backup is a heavy duty session, but after that, you don't even notice it, and don't have to think about it.

Everything he said: +2*

*I do the same, except I copy the session to TWO HD backups, plus let Time Machine silently do its thing.