DISAPPEARANCE OF 3/4 OF A TIMELINE AND ITS SEQUENCE

I made a routine export to QuickTime of my 49 min. video, due for a screening to he committee in six hours, and I was shocked to see that only 1/4th of my timeline and sequence was there! The missing material was not in the sequence, the timeline, nor it the exported Quicktime, done twice. Two scattered images remain from about 35 min. into the program, on upper layers, just a few seconds of material. My newest AutoSave file was also just like this, but yesterday's file is okay. Of course, I did a ton of detailed work since then, which is just gone. I am devastated, as I must present this, for the first time, to the group. That mostly blank timeline is a real scare. Could someone please help me??!! Must I go back to the past and redo all that work?? At one point, it said 112 files are offline, and then it did not say that again, only 5, and they aren't even in the project anyway; I checked this out. Is this project corrupt? I repaired permissions right away, and that had no effect.
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PowerMac G4, Dual 1.42 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 4 internal 120 MB hard drives, 1 TB exter Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2 displays, Airport network, etc.

hi Brainnytes
I made a routine export to QuickTime of my 49 min. video, due for a screening to he committee in six hours, and I was shocked to see that only 1/4th of my timeline and sequence was there! The missing material was not in the sequence, the timeline, nor it the exported Quicktime, done twice. Two scattered images remain from about 35 min. into the program, on upper layers, just a few seconds of material.
its pretty hard to say what has happened here ...
my gut instinct is some user error. I appreciate its something we don't like to hear but what can I say? Its easier than you might think to inadvertently delete things and not even notice .... for example you may have previously selected something in the timeline then scrolled it out of sight, then later when you thought you were deleting a browser clip, or filter in the viewer, in fact the timeline was active and you deleted a clip you couldn't even see ... stanger things have happened. sad but true.
My newest AutoSave file was also just like this, but yesterday's file is okay. Of course, I did a ton of detailed work since then, which is just gone. I am devastated ...
we learn by our mistakes. what setting do you have your AutoSave set to? you should set it to he maximum amount that you feel you can aford to lose. personally, i don't like to lose more than 5 or 10 minutes of work.
Must I go back to the past and redo all that work??
if you don't have a backup or autosave vrsion then I'm afraid you must.
i'm truly sorry, beleive me ... been there, done that
good luck
Andy

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