Quote: I've been working through a video project for the past couple days and PD crashed for some reason. Upon re-opening my project, it now provides static for ALL the sound elements. Is there any way to get the sound back? Is this a known issue of some kind? It will really stink if I have to go back and re-create the days of work I've spent on this!!!

Try a previous PDS file.

If you have not been using incrementing numbers, you can find the hidden Autosave folder.

PowerDirector 11 Default location for Auto Save.
C:\Users\PCNAMEHERE\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\11.0\AutoSave

If you use Save Project As and increment the number *001.pds, *002.pds, and *n.pds, you can recall a previous edit.

I don't have that folder created for AUTOSAVE. I confirmed that is the default folder PD is set to use for Auto Save via preferences and Auto Save is checked (and should be enabled) but I don't physically have the folder. I'm running Win7 PRO. Why should that be set but the containing folder & auto-save files not be there?

In terms of NOT USING SAVE (as described in the Toots Project Management video), shouldn't the AUTOSAVE "feature" be turned OFF? With this set, PD is just overwriting the current project file every x minutes. Maybe a better idea would be for PD to provide a AUTO-NUMBER SAVES checkbox here so you could tell PD to auto-save to a new file each time with the save number automatically incremented.

If this is going to be used, and you're trying to keep the Toots Project Management recommendations, would it make sense to change the AUTOSAVE folder location to the temporary project folder you create?

Quote: I don't have that folder created for AUTOSAVE. I confirmed that is the default folder PD is set to use for Auto Save via preferences and Auto Save is checked (and should be enabled) but I don't physically have the folder. I'm running Win7 PRO. Why should that be set but the containing folder & auto-save files not be there?

Certainly should be. You are looking in...
C:\Users\<your profile>\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\11.0\AutoSave\ ?

No, I don't have that folder. I'm not even showing an APPDATA sub-folder under C:/Users/"My Name". I do show a ROAMING sub-folder directly[b] off C:/Users/"My Name" but there's nothing in there. Is there a log file that PD creates that might show any troubles it's having creating folders or files? Might this be a permission issue?

Go into Preferences, the folder is a hidden folder but you can copy the location from there and then paste it into Explorer.
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You may have to change your Windows Explorer options to show Hidden and System files. They are hidden by default.

Howto:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/show-hidden-files-and-folders-in-windows-vista/
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What Carl said [In Control Panel > Folder Options > View, make sure you check "Show hidden files, folders and drives".]

The file path borgus posted is the default file path for auto-saves.

Auto save does not overwrite the previous auto saved file. It effectively works as "Save As". See attached.

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OK, thanks. I changed my explorer preferences to show hidden files/folders and now I see everything. And yes, I now see that the saved file is NEW for each save. That's actually pretty good. From a project management perspective would it make sense to change the AUTOSAVE folder path to the temporary work folder and let PD AUTOSAVE these every x minutes directly to the temporary work folder? If so, what would be a reasonable time limit to give to this?

You can change the location to your project for AutoSave, but I do not recommend you do that, what I do recommend, is to create a AutoSave folder on your hard drive that is not Hidden and set the Autosave location to that folder.

Then you can always find the AutoSave folder.

I Save Project As with incremented number each time I make changes in the project.
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