After Effects project with dynamic links deletes itself (Win > Mac)

[7SBF]

Hi there,

I discovered a really annoying bug that needs to adressed asap. When I create a Premiere project with Dynamic links in After Effects on a Windows machine and later on open the same project on a Mac, upon saving the After Effects project, it deletes itself. It vanished, literally.

Example: I create and work on a project with multiple dynamic links on a windows machine. Later I open the same project on my MacBook, and right click the dynamic link > edit original. Change the composition in AE, hit save and boom! Gone. 

When you close out AE you're in bad luck. It;s nowhere to be found. Workaround is to hit 'save as...' 

I've read online multiple people running into this problem. This is a serious and known problem and needs to be fixed asap! 

[nishu_kush]

I agree! That could be a big problem. Do you mind sharing the following details so that we can try to reproduce the issue on our end?

1. How do you transfer your project from one machine to another? Are you using an external drive?

2. Are you using the projects and media files directly from the external drive? Or do you first copy them to the local drive before starting your work?

3. Is this issue reproducible every time, or does it happen randomly? If possible, can you share a screen recording that shows the issue?

We're here to help.

Thanks,
Nishu