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Saved projectfiles gone - only .prmdc2 files left

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
December 2, 2020
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Exactly one month ago I was working on a series of videos, all of whom I saved under separate project file names. The files were named "cursus 1 module 1" - to "cursus 1 module 7"

Now I think I made the mistake of entering spaces in the filenames instead of underscores. Still, I have another .prproj file in my auto save folder with a space in the name that I am able to open without any problems.

The biggest issue here is that all of my saved .prproj files from the series "cursus 1 module 1" have disappeared. The only thing I am able to find on my harddisk are files with names like this: "cursus 1 module 789a0368b-767d-4e99-af73-d49c0c289d40.prmdc2"

I worked on these a month ago and have not done anything strange to my mac, I have been working on other premiere projects in the meantime without issues. I am supposed to finish these videos from last month now and am quite stressed for not being able to find the .prproj files, or any autosaved files...

Help?! 🙂

Can anybody help me figure out where my files went?

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Colegio272729221ico

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The same happen to me. Exactly the same way. You get any solution after 2 years? The Adobe support team tried to help me, but also don't have any idea of what happened

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chicken11

Participant

same problem. i had all my projects in a folder and some day after 3 month i came back and saw that the folder is empty. and then i used explorer search but found .prmdc2 files instead. what i think is premiere deleting the unused projects after a while or even when you do something irrelevant leads to this.

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Michael Grenadier

Legend

seems unlikely that premiere is doing it bwdik... You should still have your autosaves... do a search for files with the extension .prproj. I have a folder for my premiere projects on my startup drive that's automatically mirrored on dropbox and I have my autosave folder for each project on each project's media drive so basically suspenders and belt...

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Rajeewa5FC5

Participant

THis happend to me now. because I saved my video files in a portable drive. check if you saved your files in a portable drive .

Ann Bens

Community Expert

Files just dont disappear on their own. But usually is difficult to backtrack what really happened.

Is this an external drive?

Make a habit of making a Save a Copy to another drive.

FAQ: When to use "Save A Copy," or "Save As," and ...

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Claude CrobatiaAuthor

Participating Frequently

Yeah I save like 100 versions of a file always because I am terrified of losing it - and now it has happened regardless of my OCDish saving... 😕😕

So I have saved several copies of these files - but somehow cannot locate them. Only files that pop up are these .prmdc2 files. Any clue on what that means?

Averdahl

Community Expert

Yeah I save like 100 versions of a file always because I am terrified of losing it

Have you used the search function in Explorer/Finder or any other file manager to search the drive/s?

Premiere Pro project file are named Name.prproj and if you type in *.prproj and search you should get some hits.

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