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Backing up your project

Backing up your project - REAPER Tutorial

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Backing up your project

- [Voiceover] If you've looked at the root folder of your freshly-made project, or any of the projects from the exercise files, you may have noticed a file with the -bak extension. That's the backup file. It contains information that can restore your project, if the software crashes, power goes out, you close without saving, or any other issue that might cause you to otherwise lose data. Saving frequently is always a good habit to get into, but things happen from time to time and REAPER has a system in place to back you up so that you don't lose all your work in case of a catastrophe. Basically, REAPER automatically creates backups of your work at specific time intervals. How often? Well let's find out. I'll go ahead and close this window, and get back into REAPER. We're going to go to the Preferences menu. It's important for me to note that it's actually Options. Preferences on a PC, the PC version doesn't have this REAPER menu here. So go to Preferences, and then we're going to look…

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