Adobe Animate - Mac Cursor Loading Error

[Don29431766o1gt]

So I'm working on a project in Animate and randomly, after I did a brush stroke, the mac cursor loading screen appeared and it refuses to go away so I can't use my mouse and work on my project. The cursor works on every other application but when I hover the curosor on animate, the mac loading screen appears and I can't work on anything. Is there anyway for me to get everything back to normal aside from quitting animate? The last thing I wanna do is reset and lose my progress, or even worse, corrupt the file. Any help is greatly aprreciated.

[kglad]

save with a different name.

and get in the habit if saving with increasing version number appended to your file name.

[Don29431766o1gt]

I can't save right now because the cursor just won't work at all when i hover it to adobe animate so it's just stuck in this limbo state where I can't do anything, even save. Also I've made two other backup files, but I just dont't want to lose any progress I made over something completley out of my control. 

[kglad]

sounds like animate's already fozen and will crash.

hopefully the previous save with a different name was recent.

[Don29431766o1gt]

I'll give it some more time just in case I can get a solution or it miraclously stops loading, but yeah I guess I'll otherwise have to quit then. Thanks for help though.

[kglad]

you can check your activity monitor or task manager to see what activity is occurring 

[Don29431766o1gt]

Yeah it says it's not responding and the text is red so it seems like its all screwed up then, looks like I have to quit and pray, thanks again.

[Don29431766o1gt]

I quit and reset animate and luckily, I didn't lose much! only about one inked frame of animation! I'll happily take that over a entire file being lost which was what I was afraid was gonna happen!

[kglad · Accepted solution]

learn to save frequently with increasing version number appended to your file name. periodically close and reopen the latest version to confirm it's uncorrupted before deleting previous versions.

[Don29431766o1gt]

Will do!