Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1374)

Chapter 2 Backing Up and Restoring Projects 23
I
To restore a previously autosaved project:
1 Click a project’s tab in the Browser or Timeline to make it active.
2 Choose File > Restore Project.
3 In the dialog that appears, choose the autosave file you want to use, then click Restore.
The number of items in the pop-up menu for a project depends on the settings in the
Autosave Vault options in the General tab of the User Preferences window and
corresponds to the current number of autosave versions of the project in the Autosave
Vault folder.
4 When a message appears asking if you want to restore the file, click OK.
The current project in the Browser is replaced with the autosaved version of the project
you selected. However, the project is not saved automatically. Make sure you save the
project by choosing File > Save or by pressing Command-S.
Opening a Project File After Your Computer
Is Unexpectedly Powered Off
If your computer is abruptly shut down, you can open the most recently autosaved
project file after you restart your computer.
In this situation, you have several options:
 Open the project file and restore the latest autosaved version.
 Open the latest autosaved version of the project directly from the Finder. In this case,
Final Cut Pro treats the opened autosaved project as a completely separate project,
leaving your original project file unchanged. If you choose this approach, you should
move or copy the autosaved project file to the location where you normally store
your project files and rename it without the additional time and date suffixes added
by the autosave process.
Choose the desired
project file in the list.