Backburnder strips: where are they saved?

[simmsimaging]

I had a scene rendering via Backburner in 4 strips (because the render was taking insanely long - first two strips took more than 30 hours each). The next strip was almost done (like 27 hours deep) and my license server died, so I lost the whole thing

(that is a major pain in the ass btw: can it be setup so the license server is only needed at the start of a render? Makes for a huge weak link in the process. This has happened to me several times before).

Anyway, I'd like to salvage the image if I can but I can't find the first two strips anywhere. I've googled as well - where do the strips get saved from Backburner? Not in the render output directory and don't appear to be in my temp folder either.

Any clues?

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[Neilg]

They should be in the render output directory - they've never been anywhere else for me. Within backburner it tells you where it's being saved under job details.

[simmsimaging]

Thats what I thought, but the directory was empty. I thought maybe there was some other default temp directory etc. Looks like I'm hooped.

Thanks for the reply
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[Codi]

Are you using VRay VFB? It doesn't support strip rendering:
http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150S...dex.html#notes

[simmsimaging]

Are you using VRay VFB? It doesn't support strip rendering:
http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150S...dex.html#notes

I am using the VFB, I wasn't aware of the conflict since I don't really do strip renders it never came up. There were no warnings or errors that I saw and the first pieces appeared to render fine ( though it seems I should have looked for the actual files). Is that why they didn't save?

[Codi]

I think so. Sorry I can't be more specific, has been a long time since I had this issue ...

[simmsimaging]

No worries - I really appreciate the help. I probably would not have found that issue without a *great* deal of wasted time

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