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Is it possible to manually restore from a .bak file?

4 years ago • updated by 4 years ago • 1

I lost some keyframes and I'm not sure if it was user error (me) or unity didn't save something properly. At 12:30 last night I finished an animation and shut my laptop down. Today when I opened the animation, a bunch of keyframes were missing. I restored from the auto backup made at 12:30 but the frames are not there either. Could the backup be corrupted? Is it possible to inspect the data inside the .bak file?

UMotion Version:

1.22p11

Unity Version:

2019.4.9f1

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4 years ago

Hi Rob,

thank you very much for your support request.

The auto backup makes a backup of the project's current state at the interval configured in the preferences. It takes the whole project's data and serializes it into the *.bak file. Unfortunately this data is not human readable so it's not possible to use it manually. If the auto-backup got restored without any error messages, then everything was re-stored correctly.

I'm not sure why your keys are missing, probably because you've deleted them before 12:30 on accident? Have you tried re-storing an earlier backup?

Attention: Auto backups are by default automatically deleted after 36h. You can change this setting in the preferences:

Please let me know in case you have any follow-up questions.

Best regards,
Peter

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4 years ago

Hi Rob,

thank you very much for your support request.

I'm not sure why your keys are missing, probably because you've deleted them before 12:30 on accident? Have you tried re-storing an earlier backup?

Attention: Auto backups are by default automatically deleted after 36h. You can change this setting in the preferences:

Please let me know in case you have any follow-up questions.

Best regards,
Peter

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