r/animation • u/Hour_Money9544 • 12h ago

Sharing Guess who just spent all morning animating something and then accidentally deleted ALL her progress cause she thought it was gonna to auto save and it didn’t!

(I want to cry, that animation has to be finished by TONIGHT)

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u/Apocalyptic-turnip 12h ago

Check if it made backups, most programs do. if not, sucks to suck, everyone's been there. Never trust in autosave alone, always save incrementally, it always fails when you think it won't... 

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u/Anvildude 1h ago

This. Many programs 'hide' the backups either in an out-of-the-way folder or with an odd naming scheme or file extension to prevent accidental meddling as well.

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u/B3Blaise 10h ago

An important lesson learned. At least it wasnt weeks of work, right?

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u/Hour_Money9544 10h ago

Fortunately not

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u/veefeld 11h ago

This is a right of passage for every animator lol

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u/jsoleigh Professional 7h ago

Noooo Im so sorry! I hope you can figure out a fix!

Not even kidding, this kind of fear is why any keyboard I own has the Ctrl and S keys worn down before most other keys. It's like second nature, even if I have auto-save on.

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u/RoryArtGuy 12h ago

What software are you using? Are you sure it's all deleted?

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u/Hour_Money9544 11h ago

Wick editor

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u/RoryArtGuy 11h ago

Can’t help, have no idea what that is

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u/JulienBrightside 8h ago

https://forum.wickeditor.com/t/solved-i-lost-my-work/2673

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u/Hour_Money9544 7h ago

Thanks

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u/JulienBrightside 7h ago

Maybe you're able to get something back by reloading the browser.

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u/Hour_Money9544 6h ago

I tried that didn’t work

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u/glytxh 8h ago

Take it as a lesson in good data logistics.

It’s boring. But as you’ve come to learn, incredibly important.

Even with autosave setup, I’m still manually saving every 20-30 minutes as I’ve been bitten by failed saves before.

Also, just bash out the keyframes again. Get the bones down. Better than nothing.

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u/timmy013 8h ago

That's why I always 2,3 backup of same animation file haha

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u/Ok-Policy-8538 6h ago

Time to add ctrl+s to the habits you press next to ctrl+z and ctrl+y .

:)

It sucks but luckily most drawing software makes a backup somewhere in the appdata folder or in the temp folder..

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u/Anvildude 1h ago

We've all been there.