.FLA file not saved, despite saving... All work lost.

[avtutorials]

Animate V22.02.02, Win11.  I did around 3-4 hours of work, all the while CTRL-S-ing to save my work (file called intro_01.fla).  I do this saving method all the time.  I also saw the Auto-Save feature activate numerous times, with its progress bar.  Then, after around 3-4 hours of work, I saved the file in a new file name (intro_02.fla, like versioning my files).  Upon doing this, Animate just hung up, and I had to force-close the application.

Upon opening Animate again, there was no intro_02.fla, only intro01.fla.  And, the intro_01.fla file (which all the work was done to) had no content... like nothing had ever been done to it.

Is there any way to retrieve the work I did?  Thank you for any help.

[kglad]

did you check the auto-recovery file?

[avtutorials]

Thanks, Kglad.  There is no auto-recovery file anywhere.  I searched the system, and there are many RECOVER_[name].fla files, but there is no RECOVER_intro_01.fla or RECOVER_intro_02.fla.  I manually looked in the project folder as well as C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Animate CC 2019\en_US\Configuration.

If you have further ideas, I greatly appreciate your help.

[kglad]

was there an AutoRecoverFileNames.txt in your C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Animate CC 2019\en_US\Configuration folder?

if so were all the files listed already checked by you?

[avtutorials]

Yes, there is an AutoRecoverFileNames.txt, and it's completely blank -- no content in it at all.

It looks like I'll hvae to redo all 3-4 hours' worth of work.

[kglad]

if the file size of any of your previous fla's is reasonably greater than 0, there's about ~10% chance of repair by renaming a fla to a rar and repairing it with winrar.  then rename the repaired rar to a fla and try opening in animate.

p.s. in the future, periodically close and reopen the latest version.  only when you can do that can you confirm it's not corrupt and discard the previous versions.

[avtutorials]

OK, thanks for the advice.  It'll probably take me an hour or so to do all that, and I'll probably just do the 3-4 hours of work to rebuild everything.

Again, I appreciate your help!  I hope you have a great day.   : )

[kglad]

you're welcome.