Lost project

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Hey guys, I'm relatively new to Premiere. I was working on a project and now all of a sudden its lost. I've checked in all the drives including iCloud with the .prproj extension but no success at all. I used to let it save in the default location and whenever I used to open the program, a list of projects used to come on the front page which is now empty. I have worked on that project more than once over a week so it was definitely saved. The last I used it was 3 days ago but when I try to find files worked on in the last 30 days, that project does not appear at all.

Is there anything I can do other than start all over again? I mean all that time I spent looking for that file I could have done it all over again and caught up but was hoping there was an easy way around it. That project just disappeared from the face of this earth.

Would appreciate any help at all.

Thank you

excited_Genie16B8 · Answer

My first thought is to perform some organization. Set things up for a proper editing environment.

To begin, you should have five internal drives, arranged as follows.

C: OS and Programs

D: Project files, audio files, still images

E: Cache and Scratch files

F: Camera media and proxies only

G: Exports

Plus some type of backup solution. External drives are good for backing up media, the CC folder and Dropbox are good for backing up project files.

Once things are set up properly, I suspect you will not have this problem.

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