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dianed83640884
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June 5, 2019
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Accidentally saved new sesx in backup folder and now it is gone

  • June 5, 2019
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I'm suing Audition 12.1. I had a crash a few days ago working on a project in multitrack I'll call project.sesx. I found the backup in the backup folder, renamed it project_backup_after_crash.sesx, and began working from it again. I believe however that the default saving place was the backup folder. I pressed save much more consistently as I worked! Now it is several days of work later, and after opening the original project.sesx because I needed to see something on it, the system can no longer find project_backup_after_crash.sesx. I have looked everywhere. Any ideas if this is recoverable?

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Correct answer dianed83640884

Thank you for the quick reply. Yes it was still visible in Audition's File/Open Recent menu but when I tried to open it from there this morning I began seeing a message saying ~after_crash.sesx doesn't exist, would I like to search for it?. I searched everywhere on my machine and in the backup folder for it, looked at every .sesx in both of those locations, and eventually opened all .sesx files ever saved from the project in all folders to see if any had the new activity. None do (and now they all show up instead of the _after_crash.sesx in my recent sessions listed in Audition.)

My search for the .sesx is feeling exhaustive at this point. It looks to me like when I recovered that backup a few days ago, the Adobe backup system considered the newly named and saved after_crash session as an old backup to be deleted. If so I guess it's because it was in the backup folder and/or still linked somehow to project.sesx despite having been renamed and then saved many times. I worked on it so much in the last couple of days that it is possible I'd never closed it, and/or had never reopened project.sesx, and doing one of these two actions today triggered the deletion.

I would so like to be wrong about this so I definitely welcome further troubleshooting.


I am happy to say I found the ~after_crash.sesx by going to Adobe Cloud's desktop app and searching the deleted files in the file system online. Phew!

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dianed83640884Author
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June 5, 2019

Just wanted to add that "suing" was a typo. I am *using* Audition 12.1, on Mac OS Mojave.

ryclark
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June 5, 2019

So is the recovered 'project_backup_after_crash.sesx' still visible in Audition's File/Open Recent menu? If so is this what brings up an error when you try to re-open it? Where was the backup folder stored? Normally the Backup Location is set in Preferences/Auto Save which by default is set to Creative Cloud. However it may be a good idea to set it locally somewhere safe.

Also did you re-save the original project.sesx after you opened it to check it's contents? Nothing that you seem to have done should have deleted the recovered project. So there is absolutely no reason why it shouldn't still exist somewhere on your computer. You just have to find it. Take a look in the Files section of your Creative Cloud desktop app to see if it there. Or do a search your whole computer for *.sesx to find all Audition sessions that you still have.

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    dianed83640884Author
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    June 5, 2019

    Thank you for the quick reply. Yes it was still visible in Audition's File/Open Recent menu but when I tried to open it from there this morning I began seeing a message saying ~after_crash.sesx doesn't exist, would I like to search for it?. I searched everywhere on my machine and in the backup folder for it, looked at every .sesx in both of those locations, and eventually opened all .sesx files ever saved from the project in all folders to see if any had the new activity. None do (and now they all show up instead of the _after_crash.sesx in my recent sessions listed in Audition.)

    My search for the .sesx is feeling exhaustive at this point. It looks to me like when I recovered that backup a few days ago, the Adobe backup system considered the newly named and saved after_crash session as an old backup to be deleted. If so I guess it's because it was in the backup folder and/or still linked somehow to project.sesx despite having been renamed and then saved many times. I worked on it so much in the last couple of days that it is possible I'd never closed it, and/or had never reopened project.sesx, and doing one of these two actions today triggered the deletion.

    I would so like to be wrong about this so I definitely welcome further troubleshooting.

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