Project i worked on for 15 hours disappeared after safe launch

As i was working on my project, my after effects suddenly crashed. So i reopened it and it gave me the opportunity to launch it on "safe mode", so i clicked on it. After that, i realized all my projects were gone. Pay in mind i have my auto save on every 20 minutes so no clue how the folders could have just disappeared on its own

The auto save feature was set to every 20 minutes and the save path was set to "next to project"

I have used boris plugins but i uninstalled them. Though i recall that everytime i opened that project in the past. it would claim that some projects were missing. Perhaps the safe mode had deleted the files because of that?