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Save file not saving correctly

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
February 5, 2021
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I'm using Adobe Animate 2020, last night I was working on something and saved it, then closed the program and went to sleep. I know I saved it, because no "save changes?" pop-up came up when closing it. This morning, when I opened Animate I checked my recent files, and it was there but was completely reverted back to when I first started the project. There are no autosaves for it either. I don't know what happened? Help would be greatly appreciated.

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gavin_2805

Participant

Hello, same problem here,

Tried making some art on adobe animate and saved it through the top hotbar, and not even 4 minutes later, it crashes, and reverts back to a clean sheet (2-3 hours, gone).

kglad

Community Expert

@gavin_2805

so, prevent that from occuring in the future.

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Thomas37696783gdvi

Participant

Hi, same problem here!

I was doing my animation and saved it I remember clicking ctrl+s. After that I closed and opened the project and it magically went reverted back to my earlier saving.

kglad

Community Expert

is auto-recovery enabled?

and start saving your flas with increasing version number appended to your file name.

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Nick Gioia

Community Expert

Did you maybe save it as another name or miss place the file on your computer? Also look for a recovery file too.

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elspetha70923135

Participant

I am having this issue to. I thought at first it was me not checking properly but i check and double check now and the same thing is happening.

kglad

Community Expert

i'm skeptical (but also fallible).

in any case, prevent* this (and more common problems) by saving your fla files with increasing version number appended. eg, if you have a project1.fla, save as project1_v000.fla. then after some edits (especially if you don't want to lose what you've done to the fla), save as project1_v001 etc.

periodically (and especially, if you're about to walk away from your computer and let it idle/sleep) close animate and open the most recent version to ensure it's not corrupt. it's also recommended you close your current project even if you opt to leave animate open, while letting your computer idle/sleep.

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if what you say is actually occuring, this won't prevent the problem but will decrease the chance of user error/misinterpretation by providing more information about which version(s) were altered and what time/date they were altered vs their creation time/date.

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Neal37963021vjxt

Inspiring

"i'm skeptical (but also falible)"

Well get un-skepitcal because it's happened to me twice in the last couple days. What error could be more devastating than not saving one's work. I'm not even going to entertain the idea that I didn't save, you obviously won't believe until it happens to you. I did some very tedious work last night that I was putting off, took over an hour. Saved and went to sleep. To my horror those recent changes are gone. It happened a couple days ago as well but I convinced myself I must be going crazy. Gonna try and change the name every damn time I save but it may not help.

On a side note, I just want to make it known, it's great that adobe bends over backward to keep macromedia flash as close as possible to the original for those legacy users but it screws over loyal adobe users having a program with different shortcuts and stupid/outdated ways of doing things. This program is amazing but it frustrates me like no other adobe product.

kglad

Community Expert

there's no way for a file to revert to a another version or an earlier save.

it's possible you're looking at a previously saved file and you have no other saves or you do have other saves. to check for other saves, before doing anything else use file>save as to see the last directory where animate saved a file. then check that directory with a file browser.

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