Cant find after effects autosave folder

[lazerc88454450]

Help! I recently have been working on a lot of after effects projects. Every time it crashes and then i have to open my most recent autosave. Now when it crashes and I need my autosave folder, its not there where it should be. Can someone help me?

[ToolfarmJP]

Hello,

You can find the same folder in which you have saved your project files.

[OussK]

Go to preference and check if you set some custom location

anyway if you's sure there are a auto saved version from your project and you didn't know where it is, try to search your PC for .aep file and arrange by date

[Vishu_Aggarwal]

ToolFarmJP is correct if you have not changed the default Auto-save preferences of After Effects. Go to Preferences > Auto Save & check the settings. Refer screenshot below for default settings -

Important Note: If you have never saved your project... it will not Auto-save. Make sure to save a new project so that Auto Save saves the project as per the settings defined in Auto-save Preferences.

[lazerc88454450]

Hmm... I am a big noob at AE so can you tell me where preferences are? xD

[imeilfx · Accepted solution]

Edit/Preferences/Autosave

[lazerc88454450]

It worked! Thanks so much!

[imeilfx]

To add to what guys before me said if you have AE auto save turned on - forget about saving to often  (ctrl+S). In my case it is automatic in most of programs - when I'm working I'm trying to save as often as I can (that's probably because of working long time ago on really unstable old computer and os (windows 95 and 133mhz cpu ) ). And in AE time to next auto save is always counted from last save (does not matter if it is save or auto save) so f. eg. if you have set your autosave to 20 minute but you are saving (ctrl+S) your projecy by hand every 10 min - AE will never be triered to autosave.