For a day or so PD11 has been briefly disconnecting (then reconnecting) my external HDD almost every time I import a file (image, audio, video, etc.). When it disconnects my external HDD, it removes every file from the timeline that comes from the external drive. To counter this, I have been hitting the save button during the split second between the import and the disconnect. Then I just reopen the newly saved file. It's pain in the..... but it works.
That is, until I hit save a tad too late. It saved the version with 90% of the stuff in my timeline missing. The worst part is that it was a project that took meticulous editing, was 99% finished, and I was just adding music credits to the end. I figured shadow files would bail me out, but the most recent one I could find was from an hour prior to the calamity.
I realize that there probably isn't a way to get my edit back other than redoing it (sigh). But maybe there's a way to fix the HDD disconnection issue?
I really really don't want to lose anything else!
Thanks in advance.
OS: Windows 8.1
PowerDirector Ultra 11.0.0.3230
Serial# VDE130812-01
Anti-virus: Windows Defender
No codec packs
No other video editing program
No burning software
Other running applications:
Iron browser
Bluftitler (3D titling program)
Too many background processes to list (a third of which are my browser)
My OS is 64 bit but I didn't see the <Run 64BIT DXDIAG> button anywhere
Powerdirector is up-to-date.
After including the screen shot and the DXDIAG file, the attachment limit only allows me to include one of the three files I imported during the disaster. The other two were image files (a background and a text image overlay).
Filename | PD Screen Shot.jpg |
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Filesize |
245 Kbytes
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Downloaded: | 74 time(s) |
Filename | jhdgsk DxDiag.txt |
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Filesize |
80 Kbytes
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Downloaded: | 399 time(s) |
Filename | Vinyl Record Needle Static Sound Effect.mp3 |
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Description | ||
Filesize |
4696 Kbytes
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Downloaded: | 441 time(s) |
This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at Oct 19. 2013 00:13
PowerDirector Ultra 11 always up-to-date
Serial# VDE130812-01
Anti-virus: Windows Defender
No codec packs
No other video editing program
No burning software
Other applications are closed when using PD