AUTO SAVE/AVID ATTIC

Go to the Settings Tab in the Project Window and go to Bin and put whatever time i want in the Auto Save Interval and change it to (7 or whatever I want). Set the Inactivity Period to 20 seconds. The Force Auto Save should be set at 10 minutes. Set the Maximum files in the project's attic to 30 and the Max Versions of a file in the attic to 5.

If my system crashes, to find the last saved version go to the Attic which is located on the hard drive in the Avid folder most likely on the computer's hardrive and not on a unity. Go to My Computer - Main Local Internal Harddrive - Program Files - Avid - AvidMediaComposer - Avid Attic. In the Attic there will be a separate folder for each project and in those folders there will be Bin folders. The most important Bin I won't want to lose is the one with my CUTS in it. In the Attic click on the Date Modified header to find the most recent one. If I need to use the file from the Attic, I would then copy it and paste it into my project by navigating in the Finder to the Avid Projects Folder and to the project I'm working on and paste it in there. I would then go back to the Avid interface. Make sure my Sequences Bin is closed because Avid won't allow two bins that it thinks are the same bin. So close my CUTS bin and then in the Project Window go to Bins - Fast Menu - Open Bin and navigate with the Finder to the project folder and under Files of Type, choose All Files and find it and select it and click Open. It will open up as the last saved version


RETRIEVING A BIN FROM THE ATTIC FOLDER

On a Mac, the attic folder is at the top level of the Avid drive. Inside the Attic folder is a folder for each project on the computer. After projects are completed, trash the folders from old projects

On a PC, find out from the original installation.

IF YOU DELETE A SEQUENCE BY MISTAKE (OR F UP BIG TIME), you can copy a bin (file) from the Attic folder into your Project folder. Avid will only allow one version of the same bin to be open at any one time; even if your backup is renamed, so first close your problem bin and then follow these steps:
     o Quit out of the Avid (your project will be saved)
     o Double click the icon for the computer’s internal drive and open the Attic folder, and the project folder. You will see a list of backed up bins, with names such as Sequences.bak.12. They should             be displayed in date/time order (if not change the window to a list view and sort to show the newest files to be at the top).
     o Look at the list of files until you see an earlier version of your bin (usually not the most recent, as that will most likely be a copy of the problem bin)
     o Open you project folder then, on a Mac, Option + Drag your earlier bin from the Attic folder into your project folder. This will make a copy of the bin (file). You cannot open the backup bin directly           from the Attic. On an NT system, right-click on the .bak bin in the Attic folder and choose Copy. Then move to your project folder and right-click Paste or you can Ctrl + Drag the attic bin to your             project folder.
     o Relaunch Avid and you should see the backup bin in the project window. If not, choose Open Bin from the file menu and navigate to find it. Earlier versions of your clips will be in the bin. Make a           new bin and drag any clips you need into this new bin and close and delete the backup bin.

IF YOU DELETED A BIN BY MISTAKE, you don’t need to quit Avid while you copy the bin, but if the bin or sequence is corrupted, it is best to do this.

You should always back up your work to another drive or to a CD-rom at the end of the day. To copy your project, just copy your project folder to the other source.