I was editing a macro and somehow the board hosed my magic sheet even though it was locked and I wasn't doing anything with it. I don't know what else it did, if anything. Specifically, the link to color disappeared from most/all of my color changing fixtures. I exited and restarted, but that didn't fix the problem. I saved it and I went back to an older version of the file, but that version was hosed too, even though it wasn't hosed when I saved it. Somehow the magic sheets just lost the ability to link-to-color. I finally got it back by opening the magic sheet for edit and closing it again. Then the color link was restored, even though I didn't do anything but open and close it.
I edited the show quite a bit after that and then I noticed the magic sheet was missing a change I thought I had made earlier although I hadn't edited the magic sheet. I went back through the saved versions and found it two versions back. I'm guessing it may have disappeared along with the link-to-color, but I don't know.
Here's the question: how do I find out which changes have been lost if any? Is it only the magic sheet or a bunch of cue edits too? I could merge the old magic sheet, but did it lose anything else? I made lots of cue changes and will probably miss at least a couple if I try to do them again. Also, I don't know exactly where I was in my notes list and I was working out of order and checking off the ones I completed. If I could find out which channels are different, I could recreate the changes.
Has anybody seen something similar and know what might be lost? The only solution I know is the go back over the five pages of notes one at a time and verify or redo them. Does anyone have a better approach?
