Lost initial Changes to 100s of Raw Files!

I took 950 some photos at a lacrosse game yesterday. I went through many of them for hours making crop, exposure and some white balance adjustments. I took a nap and woke up to the program being off and all my changes being lost.

I was working in DPP. I did go to "file, save" several times during the progress. I had marked hundreds of files with 1 for ones to upload to my Zenfollio, 2 for ones to give to my nephew and 3 for deleters. Only the ones I did last night are still marked which means the changes saved.

Is there any way to go to a restore point or another trick? I'm not efficient at processing pictures. I would greatly appreciate help that would keep me from having to plow through all those photos again.

Thank for any help,

David

Hmm, that's unfortunate -- I don't know of any way of restoring the DPP data unless you performed an entire system backup. Windows Restore won't do it as far as I know because it doesn't work with application data as far as I know.

I know that DPP does occasionally "glitch up" and shuts down -- not the most sturdy app out there. Fortunately apps like Lightroom and Photoshop and such seem to have more "stuff" to safeguard their data although even those apps are known to crash occasionally, really a headache when in Photoshop you have a multi-layered tiff/psd file you haven't saved and it all goes up in a puff of smoke.

So I don't have an answer -- evidently DPP stored edits and "flags" in two different ways and it sucks that the edits disappeared...wish I could help.

You could contact Canon support for DPP -- maybe there is a way that they know about but we don't?

Thanks for the response.

dcsmith40D wrote in post #12329031
Thanks for the response.

Well, I wish I could be helpful, and that DPP was more robust...maybe this could be a wakeup call for people who are heavy DPP users to back up their DPP folder regularly.

And, maybe if you pester Canon support they may be able to help, or maybe provide a more robust way of "saving"...maybe an upgrade?

Each time I edit a photo in DPP, I do a save of it before closing it. Then no worries if I walk away. When you leave the directory, if you haven't saved, it will ask if you want to save. But if you've done the magic Ctrl+S already, it is a non-issue.

Ctrl+S is your friend. In any program. Use it often.

But look back at the OP -- he actually did several Save operations, but evidently lost it all with the crash.

tonylong wrote in post #12330646
But look back at the OP -- he actually did several Save operations, but evidently lost it all with the crash.

Yes, unfortunately I have several times seen that File/Save or Ctrl+S was not enough and if the application did not close in the orthodox way, edits were not saved. I think it does not actually write the data to the file at the time of Save, rather merely marking the file for writing later at the time of close-down.
I would strongly recommend not leaving the application running when away from the computer for any length of time.

tzalman wrote in post #12331492
Yes, unfortunately I have several times seen that File/Save or Ctrl+S was not enough and if the application did not close in the orthodox way, edits were not saved. I think it does not actually write the data to the file at the time of Save, rather merely marking the file for writing later at the time of close-down.
I would strongly recommend not leaving the application running when away from the computer for any length of time.

Agree. It's usually at the point that a screen-saver kicks-in, or some kind of power-saving mode happens that problems arise.

I've had similar things happen to me

I discovered a technique for easily saving edits in DPP with a few clicks.

After editing images in a folder I just click on another folder - DPP warns that images were edited and asks if I want to save. I click "yes to all" and all edits are saved.

Quick and reliable.

-js

I downloaded the new version of DPP, last night, for what that's worth. I think I like it. I started over today after work. I did as "number six" stated; I worked on a group, then clicked on a previous folder....

I didn't shut down as suggested above and that must have been the problem. I didn't know about ctrl+s. I just did file/save.

I'd say closing the program is the safe thing to do.

One good thing from the experience, I found out there was an update to DPP. I had no idea. It is has some new features that are pretty cool. I really like the ability to straighten the image with the crop function.

Thanks for mentioning the possibility of an upgrade.

Ah, you were a bit behind the times!

Yeah, the straightening tool was the game changer for me -- I had never even bothered installing it before that was introduced, now I enjoy DPP!