- \item[Loading the backup] There is one special XML file on disk at all times. After every editing operation, Cinelerra saves the current project to a backup in `\$HOME/.bcast/backup.xml'. In the event of a crash, the first thing you should do after restarting Cinelerra is select File $\rightarrow$ Load backup in order to load the backup. This will start Cinelerra at the point in your editing operations directly before the program crashed. It is important after a crash to restart Cinelerra without performing any editing operations as you will overwrite the backup. Note that the backup.xml file is always a single file which means that when you are working with two instances of Cinelerra open at the same time, they use the same backup file. In this case, the last operation made in whatever instance will overwrite the backup.
+ \item[Loading the backup] There is one special XML file on disk at all times.
+
+ After every editing operation, Cinelerra saves the current project to a backup in \texttt{\$HOME/.bcast/backup.xml}.
+ In the event of a crash, the first thing you should do after restarting Cinelerra is select File $\rightarrow$ Load backup in order to load the backup.
+ This will start Cinelerra at the point in your editing operations directly before the program crashed.
+ It is important after a crash to restart Cinelerra without performing any editing operations as you will overwrite the backup.
+ Note that the backup.xml file is always a single file which means that when you are working with two instances of Cinelerra open at the same time, they use the same backup file.
+ In this case, the last operation made in whatever instance will overwrite the backup.