Lost a 19 hour render! help!

[skywxp3d]

Hey there, so I was going to scroll around the render window in Maya but hit wrong button and created a render region, then Octane restarted my 19 hours of rendering, freaking out I hit pause, which automatically saved the new render that was basically black.. so the file is gone!!

Is there a way to recover that file that was overwritten? Does Octane save a version anywhere else in versions?

I would say that is a bug that should be addressed, If Octane could save out say 3 different files with numbered versions that would do the trick say render_001 - 003 - any ideas there?

Thanks!!

[kavorka]

Auto save has been requested, but nothing yet. Sounds like you are using the integrated plugin for Maya, does it autosave? If it doesnt do anything with saving then as far as I know, you have to re render it.

Isnt there a lock button in the plugin like in the stand alone version where you can't do something to reset it?
as advice, you should save before moving around like that. When I'm doing a long render, I usually save every so often if I can.
Never know when you might have a power outage or something.

[skywxp3d]

It was the autosave that got me, it autosaved after a new render re-started, Im just hoping we can get a bug fix that would add a number to each succesive new render started.

I tried to recover the file but it didnt work out, oh well I wanted to change a few more things anyway! haha theres allways somthin'

[steveps3]

Just 19 hours, that's nothing. Try losing a 3 week render, that sucks. Ok, I didn't lose it but I did leave luxrender rendering for 3 weeks once.

[acc24ex]

that's the worst scenario in any project..
I know I got request like that from people - but I don't remember ever recovering the files, still I think there should be a way - some of those new file recovering tools might do
google: how to recover a overwritten file

if you succeed post the link

[JimStar]

If you are talking about the Maya integrated plugin - it has not only the "Auto save" feature with adjustable autosave period (in samples), but it even saves the backup when pausing the IPR, and all backup file names are postfixed with unique postfix, the naming scheme is: "<image file name>_backup_<current number of samples>smp.<extension>". All these backups are deleted automatically when you start the new IPR session to not overload the disk.
No bugs here...

[doctorpangloss]

I would suggest locating your Maya project in a Dropbox folder. It stores old and delete files for you automatically. This would have let you recover the plugin's automatically-generated autosaves.