File Doesn't Exist - It Will Be Removed From Your LIsts

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August 4, 2021
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Hey,

I have the latest version of Adobe Animate and have slowly been working on a rough sketch for an animated music video for the past few months. Tonight I opened up Animate and didn't see it in my recent files, so I tried File-Open Recent instead. It was there, so I clicked on it. An error message popped up that said "File doesn't exist - it will be removed from your lists" and now I can't find it anywhere. It doesn't appear in any drive or in the trash folder. Curiously, I can't find any recover files for it - usually if the program crashes it creates a recover file of it.

I'm the only one that uses my computer, and I definitely didn't delete all trace of this file. Does anyone have any insight into what's going on? Is there any way I can get my file back?

Thank you for your help!

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_keyframer

Adobe Expert

Was this after you saved to a local drive? Or were you working from a shared drive such as Dropbox?

Animator and content creator for Animate CC

bili01

Known Participant

Hi,

Thank you for your swift response!

It is saved to a local drive.

I have resolved the issue now.

I wanted to ask, how do I prevent files from corrupting and do you know why animate files even corrupt in the first place.

Kindest regards,

Bili

_keyframer

Adobe Expert

How was your issue resolved?
As for avoiding corruption, best practice is to do a Save as... with an incremental numerically named file...
"MyFile_01.fla"
"MyFile_02.fla"
"MyFile_03.fla"
Etc
I save new versions every couple of hours. Also, if something happens such as an application crash, Animate will save a "RECOVERY" file - almost to a fault. Often without crashing I find my working folder is filled with RECOVERY files making file management a nightmare.

Animator and content creator for Animate CC