Adobe Animate - How to locate previous (auto-save) version of a file?

[jderritt]

Please excuse my frustration...  I'm surprised not a single person on planet earth has asked this question before...  that or there's just not a clear answer to this problem for Adobe Animate.

STORY:

So I copied a symbol and pasted it onto another frame... I forgot to convert it again to a new symbol so that whatever changes I make will not affect the original symbol.  Since I made too many changes on the original symbol its beyond undo.

QUESTION:

So my question is... does Adobe Animate create a folder that has previous autosave version(s) of the file?  If so, where do I find it?  If its an option that I don't have turned on, where do I find that on the Adobe Animate program?

If this is possible, could you just give me a simple direction like:  Windows (C:) > Program Files > Adobe > Adobe Animate CC 2018......

Also, don't mix this up with AUTO-RECOVERY, yes I know those files are located on the same folder as the same file you're working on.  Though, I'm not asking about auto-recovery.

Also, also... my File History is turned off... so I don't know if that is 1 solution for this situation.

Thanks,
JD

[kglad]

get an undelete app and restore it.

[ANNABEL LEE J38784989tezd]

i downloaded and recovered a file with the same name (tho i don't think it's the file im looking for, bcs the last modified date was the 21st even tho i edited yesterday) but when i try to open it, animate says there's an error and i can't open it.

[kglad]

maybe you already over-wrote part of it.  or try another undelete app. iobit is pretty good.

[powerful_user5FD2]

bro you save my 4 hours of working thanks a lot

[kglad]

you're welcome.