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desireed62294391
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May 26, 2022
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Media Cache and File Retrieval (post catastrophic event)

  • May 26, 2022
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I had a catastrophic computer event. Many AE/AI source files for my website projects have been deleted and are unretrievable. They were on my desktop (Mac) which is also where AE Autosave is/was. However, my AE cache files are still intact. Is there any hope that the cache files would be useful in recreating/retrieving my source files? I know it's a long shot but there is a lot of data there. 
Thank you.

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Mylenium
Mylenium
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May 26, 2022

Nope, unfortunately not. They are a custom data format that bears no relation to the source files and there is also no tool to at least convert them to regular image files - outside the developers' inenr circle at least.

 

Mylenium

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    desireed62294391Author
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    May 26, 2022

    I was so hopeful (given how much space they're taking up :-). I also saw that the Captivate cache could work for retrieving files so was hoping that something similar would be possible for AE.
    Thanks for answering!  

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