Reaper has deleted my project

Please help me guys. I've been working on a project for 2 about weeks (Reaper v 5.1). Yesterday I wanted to open another project for a moment, so I did open it and then when I wanted to open the previous project in question again 5 minutes later it just wasn't there. At all! The file is gone. There is even no backup file. I searched entire hard drive. I am really, really upset, it was an important project. And now it's gone, just like that :(. Why? What happened? It has never happened before. I've been saving the file all the time... Any suggestions? :( Please...

is it possible you had delete it by mistake? try with a data recovery tool and see if it finds something...a file can't disappear by himself :)

Maybe you saved the second project you opened over the first - i.e. used the same project name? I hope not, but I can't think of any other reason your first project would cleanly disappear... Do you have any backups to an external hard drive or USB stick?

Hey metal_priest, No, it's not possible. I didn't even open the folder I keep all my files in. And I always open the files using File > Recent project. I think it actually might be a bug. But god knows what may cause it to trigger :( I had like 30 tracks in it, groupped, with VSTs such as Kontakt Player or TX16Wx (which notabene made saving process much more longer than usual).

Well don't blame Reaper, first of all. When you searched your drive did you search the file name or do a wildcard search like *.rpp or *.rpp-bak? Those searches will turn up all project files which you can sort by date to try to find yours. Most likely the file was moved or renamed. Also try *.wav and look for the recordings, as they are all individual files, merely referenced by the project. You might also have some hard drive corruption. If you're on Windows, right click the drive in My Computer, go to properties/tools/error-checking and run that. There is also a free utility called Recuva, which can help you recover deleted files. But the longer you use the drive without doing that, the more likely those sectors are to be permanently overwritten with new data. Also, it's never a good idea to continuously overwrite the same file when saving. Use manual or auto-increments in the filename like file_1 file_2 etc. Most people (including me) learn this lesson the hard way. And if you don't periodically back up your valuable data to a separate disk or online service, you run the risk of losing it permanently at any time if your disk fails. Welcome to the digital age...take precautions. Good luck.

Just a sanity check to check the Recycle bin. Another sanity check to "show hidden files" just in case. I don't know how Reaper could delete the file though. :( Last sanity check is there any possible way AV could have quarantined it?

Let me ask a few basics -- in what folder was the project stored (its path name is in the Recent projects list) -- what is in that folder now? -- can you start a new project, save it there, re-open it etc? TX16Wx -try turning off the "Copy content" options on the Settings page. Also have a look at this thread:

i still think that it's impossible a bunch of files disappers for no reasons. Try to download a recovery file tool and let it check for all the files in your hard drive, if you had write them on the hard drive...they have to be still there somewhere!

Sorry, but there is absolutely no way that TX16Wx (or any other VST) can delete a Reaper project from disk. And your project folder now contains all your other projects (and media files etc) but not this one project? I'm stumped.