LMMS Not Responding

[angeliquehandel]

Hey guys! I have a real dilemna here. LMMS often doesn't respond when I try to add a vestige instrument. I've been working for about an hour, and tried to add an instrument and forgot to save my work so far. Now, the program is not responding and I was wondering if there was any possible way I could recover my work since I last saved?

[Gps]

Look in the folder were you save you're files, if there is a back up file. ( A file with the same name but with an extra part .bak.

If you're on Linux you can open this file by double clicking.
On windows you will have to rename this file first. (you need to rename it so the .bak part disappears)

[st3aLth]

Just save often
There is no way back when program is not responding

[musikbear]

@ angeliquehandel
First
Welcome to the forum!
I like to list all those links that could be of interest to new LMMS-users, so :
Heres the most important LMMS links:
LSP - dedicated site for sharing projects, presets, themes and more https://lmms.io/lsp/
LMMS homepage https://lmms.io/
The Forum - for discussion https://lmms.io/forum/
LMMS Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/makefreemusic
LMMS Soundcloud group https://soundcloud.com/groups/lmms
LMMS Wiki - documentation about the program https://lmms.io/documentation/
LMMS Google+ community http://goo.gl/CxzpNI
LMMS Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/LMMSOfficial

Im sorry for your lost project, but lets brake this down:

There is no way back when program is not responding

well it does depend..
Im pretty sure im too late with this input, but there may bee a file named recover.mmp in your lmms-working-directory. That file is an auto-saved version of your work, from a timeslot where lmms still was responding. It will never be the whole project, but it could be that some of the project was rescued.
This may sound as a sweet deal, but it has thorns..

Unless you have a very neat pc, and a lot of ram, enabling recovery will be a pain in your a.. paw Paw!
The recover functionality is very resource demanding, and for that reason, it is not pr default enabled!
Here
https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=LM ... e_Settings
you can see more about 'auto-save-function', and how to enable this. Personally i have it disabled, and just do manual saving every time im happy with something.

Finally, im interested in what VST that caused the crash?