where is my history of things i ceated?

[ronik83704217]

where is my history of things i ceated?

i worked in firefly on th 6.11 - where are all the elements i created?

[droopydog500 · Accepted solution]

Hello @ronik83704217,

Thank you for your message. I am sorry you are having this problem. 

I am not sure what you are asking, exactly, it could be one of these two things:

• You generated images and expected Firefly would keep a record of that so you can go back later.
• You favourited generated images and they are no longer there.

Since I am not sure which of these you are asking, I will answer both.

Saved Images

Unless you take specific action to save an image, they are not saved. You have various options including downloading the image to you local computer or to your creative cloud library, favouriting the image which stores the image along with the prompts and styles used to generate it in your browser cache, or by getting a URL link which takes you back to the generation page with the prompts and styles.  If you do not take one of these actions, I am afraid the image is lost.

You can see the prompts/generations in your current session by pressing this button:

But this is only the current session and is not permanent storage.

It has been a frequent suggestion that prompts and images be automatically saved. I recommend you look at these posts and upvote the one(s) you would like to see:

History of text prompts 

P: History of Previous Generated Images 

Personal archive

These references might be helpful on what steps you can take to save creations:

• Everything you wanted to know about Favourites in Adobe Firefly
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Saving Images From Firefly Text to Image

Missing Favourites

Favourites are stored in the browser cache. You can only access them on the same browser on the same computer where you favourited them.

If anything deletes things in the cache or all of the cache, your favourites will disappear.

• Is your disk close to full or do you have a limit set in the browser of how large the cache can be? If so, the browser might be deleting things in the cache to conserve disk space, which would delete your favourites.
• Do you have a utility program that is being run manually or automatically to clean up your computer? These utilities frequently delete browser caches to recover the disk space. That would delete the favourites.
• Do you have a browser extension which is deleting things from the cache? Try using another browser for a few days and see if you experience the problem (but note that any images you favourite in that browser will only be available in that browser.

Unfortunately, if you are using the same browser on the same computer and they are no longer there, they are most likely gone forever. his could happen if, for example, you cleared your cache in the browser, used a utility which cleans your computer, or ran low on disk space (additional possibilities are listed in the first document referenced below). 

I said "most" likely, because there are steps you can take to rewind your cache if you had already been backing it up, but most people do not do that. My primary platform is Mac and I back my browser cache up with Time Machine on the Mac, so I can go backwards in time and restore my cache from a point in time. This has saved me a few times when something was deleted from my cache and I was able to roll the cache and settings back a day.  If Windows was my primary platform, I could do something similar on it.

My best,
    droopy