Exporting Files in Animate = Extreme Danger!?!?

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
November 16, 2022
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So I finished a 70+ hour project in Animate and exported the file from .fla to .h264 (mp4). Then I noticed a mistake and went back to change it only to find my original file empty. Also, the recovery file seems to be empty too.

Is this what happens to Animate files when exporting? Permanent data loss? Seems rather dangerous for a simple function that had no warnings this was about to happen.

Please help.

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JoãoCésar17023019

Community Expert

Hi.

I'm sorry about that.

Besides of what kglad said, I would like to suggest more approaches:

- Try to recover (previously) deleted files from the file system in the Recycle Bin / Trash;

- Use dedicated softwares to search for deleted files, like Recuva;

- Decompile the most recent exported SWF using softwares like SWF Decompiler, JPEX, Flash Decompiler Trillix, or others.

I hope these help.

Regards,

JC

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TreeBuffaloAuthor

Inspiring

I tried a few of these but gave up and started over. Instead I invested in an external hard drive for Time Machine, and will NEVER EVER export again without a fresh backup under a different name. Dear Adobe, please consider adding a warning about the dangers of data exporting before it happens.

kglad

Community Expert

save frequently with appended version number, exporting or not.

kglad

Community Expert

that's not happened to me, but yes animate files can get corrupted. so learn to save frequently with increasing version number appended. periodically close and reopen the latest version to confirm it's not corrupted.

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