Thanks a bunch Adobe premiere pro,Just wonderful. [Premiere crashed, any tips on recovering my work? Auto-save does not seem to have worked.]

SAFEHARBOR11  Excuse me  ? do not tell me what i can and cannot post,i pay a premium price for this program and it let me down.if i want to grieve my annoyance at it,then that is exactly what i will do.

My post wasn't trying to be "snarky" and it certainly wasn't from my point of view.i have since learnt from other more useful posters that i shouldn't rely on autosave.

thanks for all the replies,apart from the non helpful and completely useless post from @SAFEHARBOR11

FR: Instant AutoSave

Jeff is correct, actually. I'll add that the learning process for video editing, PrPro or other programs, isn't a curve. It's a steep ramp that never ends. At least as far as I can tell, as even though one gets better, faster, and more knowledgeable, there's always more tools you need to start using ... always.

One of the first things "we all" get to learn, mostly by pain sadly ... is that auto-save is not a safe professional practice. Say you've got it set at 5 minutes, 20 saves. Auto-save waits for you to stop for 20 seconds or something before it works ... so it might take you a full two hours or slightly more before it starts over-writing previous auto-saves.

Say you've got several sequences, and you work one to start, don't realize, but a bit of corruption gets into it as you start working a different sequence. You work through your stuff. Even go off to lunch leaving PrPro on. Come back ... and what the heck, it's all messed up. So you close & reopen ... no ... can't be! ... race to  find autosaves, and even the oldest extant auto-save is corrupt! You're screwed.

Been there done exactly that. Came on here screaming about it, this back what five years ago now? Jim Simon and shooternz came on with pithy, direct, and totally non-emotional short statements that relying on auto-save is for Stupid, learn, move on ... and do a save-as routine to be a real professional.

Yea, my project was mostly screwed ... I mad a new project, tried to import the corrupt project sequence by sequence, and I think only one of several sequences was ok ... and by itself, pretty useless. So a full day's work just ... gone.

Doing a manual save, Ctrl-S every time you finish a major step is good ... but doing Save-As for an iterative process through your projects so that you always have 'save' versions to  get back to is where you get to always, reliably, safe.

Crashes within PrPro, and especially when doing both Ae & PrPro, will occur. Your professional life is built on getting back to work immediately after a crash. Done right, you lose maybe five or ten minutes max of work. Trying to get a crash-log to someone and work through it ... wasted time. You might get a post-mortem on what ​happened​ which isn't to say it won't happen again. And it doesn't ​fix​ your project.

Neil

Hi Dan,

Rather than make a snarky post, you could say "Premiere crashed, any tips on recovering my work?"

In the folder where you saved the project, do you have a folder called Adobe Premiere Pro Auto-Save ?

That should have backup versions in it. If so, open and check those backups to see which has the most current/most complete content of yours, then use Save As and save a copy outside the auto-save folder, so it does not get overwritten. The danger is that if Premiere has been re-opened and left open after the crash, whatever "good" backup you possibly had at the time may have now been overwritten. You have to act right after the crash on recovery efforts.

Aside from that, I've been editing for as long as there have been NLE software...as a habit, I am hitting Ctrl-S pretty often while editing to manually save my work. It's the responsibility of the editor to take due diligence to save his/her work periodically. If you really did lose your day's work, I'm sorry because that really sucks, been there. But it's a good lesson, don't edit all day without saving your work ;-)

Thanks

Jeff