Clearly I am not up to par on this, I now have re-painted two cars that somehow the paint got overwritten. I did two separate paints on a C6.R and now have done two paints on the MX-5 Cup. Since I have 2 MX-5’s in my garage once I finished the 2nd paint it updated my other car (1st paint) to the alternate paint. I need help. I am pretty frustrated that I’ve painted the same car twice now!
I did the same man and it actually locked me out of my own paint!
Yepp kinda experienced this already as doing two liveries on the F12. Not good!
I think it may have something to do when you save. If you save to the catalog or car. I’m gonna mess around with it tonight.
For now I guess saving whole sides as layer groups is all I can think of…
Not exactly sure I understand what’s going on for you guys … but was just gonna throw out a couple of ideas.
I had a little confusion when I first started creating, saving and sharing designs because all the design files are named the same thing (Forza Livery) by default. This can be a little confusing when working with multiple designs for the same car … particularly when you have more than 1 of the same car in your garage. I overwrote a couple of designs a few times because I didn’t pay attention to the file names or which file was actually on the car I was working on at the time.
Just as a tip, anytime I add a new car to my garage, I automatically re-name the design file now to a unique name before I even start on a design.
Is it possible that your issues may have been from leaving the design file names as the default name and possibly overwriting them that way?
Give you an example of what I’m talking about as I’m starting a new one right now.
Say I have Design A on a car and I want to create Design B. I get in the car and go to the Paint Shop. I then go to create a new design file and go to Save > New File to create the new one. I name it Design B.
The kicker is my car still has Design A loaded on it … not Design B. So if I make a change to the car … like remove all vinyls and change the base color to start my new design … and then exit the Paint Shop when it asks to Apply to Car and Save, I’ve actually now overwritten Design A with the new base color while thinking I was saving the new base as Design B. So if you don’t pay enough attention to actually load Design B onto the car before making any changes, it’s kinda easy to overwrite Design A without really knowing it.
Alas! I have overcome this nuisance! I found that saving the design to the catalog only after placing your last vinyl layer/group on the car instead of saving to the car saves the second design without overwriting the first. Of course after you leave the editor upon saving to the catalog only it defaults back to the first paint, then just go to the catalog and load paint two. Be careful not to back out and save to the car! This overwrites the first paint, well at least for me…
Really wish I’d have known this earlier lol
Lost al lot of good paints 
Sry to hear that man, I should also mention that I sold, err “removed” one of the MX-5’s from my garage.
I had the same problem: I did rename the file when I created my army inspired Nova, then I created a dragrace version and called that a different name, but then I went to make change to the first one as far as ride height and such, and when I was leaving the upgrade portion to go into paint again, it gave the option to save and continue or something similar and I believe it was at that point the drag version was overwritten. I have a saved pic of it, not sure if a download of the design would give this one or the bone stock appearing one, but in MY Designs, this pic no longer exists.
army-drag-nova by billybob403, on Flickr
Say Paint A is your first paint then you decide to do another called Paint B. With Paint A loaded onto your car go to Livery editor and create Paint B. Upon completion of Paint B when you leave the livery editor you will be asked to save the design to the car, save the design to the design catalog only, exit without saving. If you choose to save the design to the car Paint B will overwrite Paint A in your design catalog. It is crucial you save to the design catalog only. Upon leaving after saving to the design catalog only, Paint B will default back to Paint A. Then just go to “My Designs” tab, select Paint B, and load Paint B onto your car. You have to create a new file for each paint before saving the design to the car.
I think loading paint a on car b is the issue… At least for me I’m finding that’s what’s happening
this happened to me on 3 cars…