Recover file from Backburner 2015

[imagestud]

How do I restore a max file from Backburner 2015.0.1?

I did this years ago using the *.maz file.

I worked all morning, saved my files, then figured out I messed up. I need to go back to where I was when I started. Thought I'd restore from Autobackup, but all the files contain the new information. I rendered the animation two days ago and the jobs are still in the backburner que monitor. The files exist "somewhere".

I can't find any *.maz files on my hard drives.

I can't even find the network rendering folder for backburner even though "show hidden files and folders" is selected.

[CAMedeck]

Depending on how you have your Backburner set up to run, the location of the files can vary and doing a simple search may not show them.  In our case, we have BB Manager running on a server as a service using no login, just as the local account.  This means the Backburner files are located in the following location:

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\backburner

And don't try looking for a .MAZ file.  You'll be looking for three files with the job name and the extensions .MAX, .ZIP and .XML.  You'' really only need the MAX file.

[Stefan_L · Accepted solution]

In my case - running all backburner parts as local application with Win7 - all relevant stuff can be found under

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\backburner\Jobs

You may need to switch hidden files to be visible in your explorer options.

In there, you'll find subdirs named "xxxxxxxx JOBNAME" containing a ZIP archive mirroring you project drives, dirs and files.

Your MAX file usually should be on your C: drive in your TEMP directory.

[imagestud]

Found three files *.tsk, *.xml and *.zip in the C:\Users\username\Appdata\Local\backburner\Jobs\JOBNAME directory.

Used WinZip to extract the file and the Max file worked fine!

Probably a setting somewhere,  but NOTHING in the C:\TEMP directory

Thanks for the help guys.