Friday, 9 May 2008

Composer->FAQ  [ Editing | Play & Sound | Import & Export | Printing | Troubleshooting | Misc | Search]

Well, for starters, we should point out that you should always keep a backup of your work. Hard drives do fail, and when they do, you will sing a sigh of relief when you have a current, working backup of your work.

Backups aside, after uninstalling and then installing a new version, some people confuse the absence of their NWC file history as having lost their song files (they no longer show up in the File | History command). If this is the case, then you will find your song files on your computer in the location where they are still stored. One way to track them down is to use the Windows "Find" command. From an Explorer window, simply type Ctrl+F and the find utility will open. From there, you can search for your files by name. Use the "Look in" box to specify all of your drives, select "Include subfolders", then specify the name of one of the files that you are trying to find.

If this does not work, see the previous question for possible scenarios where you may have inadvertently deleted your files. If you ever mistakenly delete your files, there are utilities on the market that might help you to recover them, including Norton Utilities. A discussion of this topic is beyond the scope of this answer, but some users have given advice in our forum. Some threads touching on this subject can be found at:

• nwcforum article #1034
  
• nwcforum article #1239