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My big gallery show file got corrupted right before the deadline
I was putting the final touches on a piece for a local gallery show in Denver, a digital painting that took about 80 hours. I went to save the final version and my whole program froze. When I forced it to close and reopened the file, it was just a garbled mess of pixels. My heart sank. I had a backup from two days before, but I'd done a lot of work since then. I spent the next six hours trying every file recovery trick I could find online, and finally got a version back that was mostly okay, though I still had to redo some of the finer details. It was a huge stress. What's your go-to method for backing up work when you're on a tight deadline? Do you just save constantly, or use something more solid?
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reese_thompson741mo ago
That's a nightmare scenario. I use a two-part system for big projects. I save incremental versions with new file names every hour, like "project_v1, project_v2." At the same time, I have a cloud drive set to auto-sync that folder. So even if my computer dies, the last saved version is already online.
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