Creative Cloud Saving Issue - Session Missing?!

sbo-2019  wrote I have my Audition set to autosave and I 100% pressed save each time I opened a new session or closed out of the application. I also exported the final file, but didn't export the tracks separately as I thought it was saved. Evidently being on crap wi-fi means that you aren't getting the full saving experience to cloud. Really hoping that the session is saved on my device/hard drive somewhere?

I'm afraid that our experience of this dictates that in order to get a reliable save across a network - any network that is, not just crappy wi-fi - the way to do it is to make a local save first, and then just export the files. Whatever you do, don't rely on the network for a direct save from the software, because all bets appear to be off if you do that; it's pretty much Russian Roulette.

If you go to the 'recent files' list and you see just the name of the session you were using (rather than a path) then the session file's probably in what Audition uses as a default location. Since you haven't said whether this is Mac or PC, I can only tell you that on a PC, it's in the user's Documents folder under Adobe>Audition>12.0, and I would imagine that something vaguely similar happens on a Mac. But if the session is listed with a path, then that will be where it is - just follow the path.

But I must re-emphasise - if you want to save remotely, then the only sensible way to do it is to do a local save first, and then transfer the files. And don't lose anything until you've proved that you can download it again. And trust no original material to it. I realise that this all sounds a bit harsh, but the much-vaunted 'you can save everything in the cloud' scenario that everybody raves about really doesn't amount to anything reliable at all. If you think about it, this makes some sense; you are effectively sharing a finite channel into a storage facility with a load of other users on a first-come first-served basis - with individual bits of file, and over a bit of wet string. And if you're doing this from the software, you've got an additional hurdle to overcome on the way to your remote location - the file-save action of the software itself, as well as the flaky network interface. I would say that it was amazing that it works at all, but since a lot of the time it simply doesn't, I'm not going to. Quite frankly, about 100% of the time you're better off just saving to small portable drive on the side of whatever it is you're editing on.