My animate project keeps disappearing (on Mac)

Question

Hi, when I save my Adobe animate file, the file and recovery file completely disappears from where I've saved it and is nowhere on my computer (like it never existed). This led to losing some of my project. I have learnt that after saving, I can make a quick edit to my project and save it again and then the files return back to where they were. I was wondering if anyone else has been experiencing this problem and if there's anything to fix it? It was working fine the other day and now not anymore.
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asha_0871 · Accepted Answer

As soon as I save it the files disapear and this alert shows up saying I need to save it again for it to exist and then I have to save it as a whole new fla file again but I'm scared if something happens and it crashes then I'll lose everything - I have to keep making new save files onmy hard drive just in case something happens again but its not ideal.

After some experimention and copying my timeline across to a new file, I found that the new file isn't having this problem so I think there may be a bug with my current file - thanks for the help but i think copying everything into a new file is the only solution.

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caleb_7618 · Answer

This exact thing has been happening to me, and I can't figure out why. After spending a couple hours on small projects over the weekend all 3 dissappeared from a folder i was saving them into on my desktop on my M4 macbook. And not at once. So I don't understand what Im doing wrong.

I did one. Saved it. Was able to open it again. Later in the day it was missing from the project list when opening the program. It was in the recent opened list, but when i tried to open it from there it told me it didnt exist and would remove it from the recent list. This happened 3 times in a row.

The only thing I can think of is maybe i opened the project and closed it again without making a save but Im not sure if i did that all 3 times. And no other program works like that so it doesnt make since for it to dissappear.

I am new to animate so would love to just hear that im doing something little wrong.

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