Desktop Crash Caused Corrupt ShowFile

[QUOTE=Buzz313th;73051]Was playing around with syntax to try and filter select fixtures out of a cuelist like is possible with the "Live" key and crashed the desktop. Restarted the desktop process and continued until lunch, where I saved the showfile and shut the desk down.

Came back from lunch, started the desk up and noticed 8 of 14 MACIII's would not increase intensity, even though everything looked good at the desk. I reloaded a showfile saved before the desktop crash and everything was fine. I then tried the bad show file and still bad news. On the old showfile I removed all the MACIII's and re added them to fixture schedule and repatched.. Everything was fine except that even though fixture ID's were patched exactly the same, I still lost all programming and prior groups, cues, palettes and scenes for all the Macao's. Only option was to run from the old showfile...

It seems the desktop crash destroyed any references to the MACIII's in the patch...

As soon as this job is over, I'm gonna dig up the error log and send it off..

Any idea how I can my last 2 hours o programing back?

We sporadically get these type of show issues, but for years we have not been able to run the console through a series of steps to get a show in this state in our lab - hence the ongoing sporadic problem.:sad:

[QUOTE=Buzz313th;73051]Was playing around with syntax to try and filter select fixtures out of a cuelist like is possible with the "Live" key and crashed the desktop. Restarted the desktop process and continued until lunch, where I saved the showfile and shut the desk down.

Came back from lunch, started the desk up and noticed 8 of 14 MACIII's would not increase intensity, even though everything looked good at the desk. I reloaded a showfile saved before the desktop crash and everything was fine. I then tried the bad show file and still bad news. On the old showfile I removed all the MACIII's and re added them to fixture schedule and repatched.. Everything was fine except that even though fixture ID's were patched exactly the same, I still lost all programming and prior groups, cues, palettes and scenes for all the Macao's. Only option was to run from the old showfile...

It seems the desktop crash destroyed any references to the MACIII's in the patch...

As soon as this job is over, I'm gonna dig up the error log and send it off..

Any idea how I can my last 2 hours o programing back?

We sporadically get these type of show issues, but for years we have not been able to run the console through a series of steps to get a show in this state in our lab - hence the ongoing sporadic problem.:sad: