Ableton! LOST FILES!

[MisterMeaner]

Hey people sooo i had a great song down mastered and everything!. Then a week later i went back into that ableton files on my MacBook (ofcourse) and i wanting to use the same sounds and i accidentally saved what i had done on my old track that i wanted to keep separate. I overwritten the file and want to know how i can retrieve the original

[ChevChelios]

Bummer man, unfortunately Live doesn't save periodic back ups (pro-tools does )

So unless bounced all your tracks to separate audio tracks, you can get it back.

If you did however do that, then all your old audio would still be in your audio folder in the projects folder.

[MisterMeaner]

dam! yea i new protools save periodically so i thought live would too. That sucks hard oh well live and learn i guess!

[Tomy]

maybe time machine backs up at different times? kinda like windows restore?

worth a look.

[Mitch]

if time machine is on automatic, it backs up every hour, but obviously only if the external hdd you backup to is plugged in. So its possible, but this relies on:

a) you backup

the hdd was plugged in

c) the external hdd is big enough to keep copies far enough back to what you want

worth a shot though

[Tomy]

correct