After two hours of producing one of my best videos thus far Shotcut “Not Responding” and I lost all of that time. I learned a very valuable lesson however I keep forgetting to hit the save button while I am in creative mode. I am accustomed to other products such as word, etc in which there is an autosave feature.
Is there an autosave mechanism in Shotcut so this doesn’t happen again?
Thanks.
There is an autosave feature. It does not save to your project file, but rather to a hidden file in Shotcut’s app data folder. When you try to re-open a project (.mlt), then Shotcut checks to see if there is a matching auto-saved file in this hidden folder and offers to open that instead. If it does not give you that offer then you may have lost the work, but there was a bug in this area in some recent versions where it does not work correctly, but instead makes too many autosave files. From the menu, choose Settings > App Data Directory > Show… > autosaves. Sort that view in your file manager by Date modified to look for recently created files. You might find it in there.
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