I accidentally closed the file without saving it, how do I open it back up?

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I spent 2 hours making animations and decided to save the file. Foolishly, instead of saving the file, I selected 'close' and later confirmed the action without reading the label. Now I can't restore it. I remember exactly that adobe auto-saved my file and I also looked for it in the AutoRecuveFilenames text document, but it was empty. Apparently because of my choice to 'close' the file, it wasn't saved anywhere at all. But maybe there is a way? At least somewhere auto-saves even after closing the file completely should have been saved. Right?

kglad · Answer

you're probably out of luck if you already checked your autorecovery file. but just to be sure:

for win users, open C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Adobe\<animate version>\en_US\Configuration\AutoRecoverFilenames.txt and see if there was a saved file and, if so, check the folder location listed

for mac users, check the folder (for a file with name recover_) where the fla was saved. if the fla wasn't saved, i think you're out of luck, but you can still search your computer for "recover_"

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