Instruction Manual

1064 New Features in SONAR 7
File Recovery Mode
• Your hard drive might suffer data loss.
• Windows delayed writes might fail leading to data corruption.
• Many hard disks have a "write through cache" buffer for efficiency.
Occasionally this write through buffer might not get flushed due to a
driver error or system crash. In such cases data might not be flushed to
your hard driver causing corrupt files (SONAR requests Windows to
flush this buffer after a file save operation).
• A plugin can corrupt the SONAR's memory space causing invalid data
to be written to disk when the project is saved.
• During a file save the system can crash. In such situations you will have
a truncated file on disk.
You save a "recovery file" through SONAR's crash exception dialog. When
a crash occurs in SONAR you are presented with this dialog allowing you to
attempt to save a recovery file. While this works most of the time,
occasionally SONAR may be in a compromised state due to memory
corruption. Under these circumstances, saving a file might cause a crash or
the file might contain invalid data.
In general, the best insurance against the data corruption scenarios above
is to follow standard safe computing practices to guard against data loss
(keep regular backups, use autosave with versioning, etc). However,
occasionally you may be faced with a situation where you do not have a
backup copy of a critical project that now fails to open.
SONAR's File Recovery Mode offers a means to help recover data from
damaged project files.
To Use File Recovery Mode
Do one of the following:
• If you are opening a file from the Most Recently Used files list in the File
menu, hold down the Shift key while selecting file name.
• If you are opening the file from the Open dialog, select the file in the
dialog and hold down the Shift key while clicking the OK button.
What does File Recovery Mode do?
File Recovery Mode applies the following behavior when opening a project
file:
• Opens only the Track view, skipping all other opened views in the
project including effects windows, Console View etc.
• Prompts you if you want to open the plug-ins saved with your project.
Each plug-in gets a prompt, so you can open some and not open