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October 24, 2023

Adobe crashes and overwrites my manual saves with out-of-date back ups

  • October 24, 2023
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Hi! I want to make a complaint or raise an issue – Adobe crashed and deleted all my work on an .sesx file and replaced it with a much earlier back up. I manually save very frequently. This has happened before, and (with no help from the Adobe team) I realised that if I just reopened the file, my saved changes would reappear. This didn't happen this time, and I can only find old backups. This is a major problem and a huge issue when working on time-sensitive podcast projects.

 

You can see I previously asked the community about the same problem. At the time, Adobe support staff struggled to understand the issue or offer relevant suggestions, and told me the work was completely lost. In that instance, it turned out to be salvageable (as you'd expect when you're manually saving after every second cut or clip adjustment). But clearly this isn't always the case, and it isn't sustainable.

 

 

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 24, 2023

We've covered this before. For reasons that aren't altogether clear, the system is initially likely to offer you a backup that generally isn't anything like the latest one - if you want that, you have to locate it for yourself. A crash will only delete what's in the current version of your .sesx and therefore the amount of work you lose depends entirely on how frequently you allow auto-backups.

 

Yes it would be much better if it automatically offered the latest backup - not the least reason being that far fewer people would complain about it...