Am I missing something on saving projects?

Elektron Gear Digitakt
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Weird one today, and I’ve owned and used DT for 6 years. There was a productive day of working prepping a live set, updating older patterns, and saving the project regularly along the way. After a power cycle, seems nothing that I have changed or added was saved. In particular, at first glance what I am seeing is Midi track channel assignments nor program changes have been saving.

I don’t understand!!! Running 1.50.

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Not sure this ever got solved and it got reported by a few people.

It only happened to me when I accidentally created 2 samples with the same name and loaded them into a project but I suspect this was a coincidence.

Never had an issue with 1.52

1.52 has the updates which allows you to turn off the backlights which for me was a game changer. Perhaps you got blinded by the 1.50 light show and forgot to save :grinning: sorry. Joking.

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I have no idea what might have happened. I am now trying the work around of saving into a fresh new project.

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Same thing happened to me… I made some changes on a pattern, copy&pasted it to the rest of the tracks in order to create variations during the next session, saved project (FUNC + SETTINGS) and turned it off. Next time i opened the project, all pasted tracks were blank. This had happened some months ago as well, but i didnt investigate it then. Today I verified that the reason was not that i turn off the power socket where the DIGI is plugged in. So I assumed that my unit was problematic… until I found this thread.
Anybody tried to contact Elektron about it?

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Sorry, I don’t quite understand. Have you been able to replicate this problem, whenever you save a project and then turn off power at the wall power point?

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I phrased it poorly.
I havent managed to replicate, no. After opening the project and finding out that the project save did not work, i tried to replicate by copy&pasting again the pattern, then saving, then turning off digi, then turning off the power socket.
Result: the pattern/project was saved as expected.
Maybe the time difference between turning off the DIGI and the power socket could matter ? (sounds dumb, I know).

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I think the thing to try when this happens is to reload the project.

It, in most cases, does save the project but for some reason keeps a pre-save version loaded.

Don’t know why it happens but I’ve experienced it and reloading solves it.

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I have faced similar problem once.
Projdect data corruption was caused by incorrect power cycling. This is what literally happened:

  1. I have a saved project
  2. I have unsaved vesion ‘on the fly’
  3. I turn the unit off. Work is done for today.
  4. I accidentally turn the unit on and instantly off so it doesn’t have a proper boot. A misclick.
  5. I turn the unit the next day and try to work in the latest unsaved vesion ‘on the fly’. Unfortunately I save it in slot of ‘latest fully saved version’ instead of loading the ‘latest fully saved version’. As I would discover later, version ‘on the fly’ has some patterns missing.
  6. Since that day I always load the latest saved version to begin my work.
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