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emilyd42880627
Participant
January 3, 2021
Question

After Effects not saving?

  • January 3, 2021
  • 5 replies
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Hello,

 

So, the After Effects project I've been working on won't save. Autosave is on, but I only now realized that it has not been working? The program is fine/responding perfectly, other than that every time I click save (or any variation of saving) it doesn't do anything. There seems to be plenty of storage on my computer, and even if I try to save it to an external drive (where I have saved things before), there is no luck.

 

Does anyone know why this might be or if there are any other workarounds I could use so that I don't lose all my work? 

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5 replies

Participant
August 2, 2022

I'm having the same issue. Has there been a fix?

Participant
July 1, 2022

This is also happening to me after just updating to the latest (22.5). Absolutely nothing happening when I click 'Save' or 'Save As' and can't find ANY workaround whatsoever. Can't even render my composition in AE or Encoder... INFURIATING! 

 

Does anyone have a solution? 

Participant
February 11, 2021

This has just happened to me. Lost a day of complex work. How can I stop this from happening again? It's really bad for workflow.

 

Participant
January 28, 2021

I am currently experiencing this same issue. I just updated and now when I try to save, I hit save and literally nothing happens. Can't find any possible way to save. Very frustrating to say the least.

Ro Hackett
Inspiring
January 3, 2021

In edit - preferences - auto save can you see a location for the file? 🤔 🤔

 

And do you not see a file path across the very top of the screen beside the small AE logo? 😮🤔 🤔 

 

emilyd42880627
Participant
January 3, 2021

Yes, I do see the autosave file path. There are not any saved files in that location.

 

Hmm... no, I don't see a file path across the top of the screen. 

Ro Hackett
Inspiring
January 3, 2021

So if you press file - save as ... or file - save a copy... what happens? 😮 

 

Also are you synced to creative cloud folder? 😮🤔 🤔