Flash auto recovery save location

[luckyfire86-_-]

Hi,

I've been working a lot with flash lately, just for small edits of gifs and what not.

When I don't save a flash file as a .fla file but just have it open as unsaved

And there's an automated (recovery) save triggered in the system it saves the file somewhere.

Any idea where this is?

[kglad]

the last directory used to save (a previous version of) that fla.

[Colin Holgate]

Yes, but where is the Temp folder, that Flash saves unsaved recovery files to? It's talked about here:

Flash Professional Help | Set preferences in Flash

but it doesn't mention where the Temp folder lives.

[kglad]

i don't think unsaved fla files have auto-recovery saves.

[luckyfire86-_-]

Suddenly I lost half a gig on my HDD, so it must have.

[kglad]

then search for 'RECOVERY*.fla'

[Colin Holgate]

In trying to track down the Temp folder, I did try searching for RECOVERY_ . Didn't find it yet, but I have a new idea I'm about to try...

[luckyfire86-_-]

But I haven't save the file anywhere yet.

[Colin Holgate · Accepted solution]

I found it, for Mac anyway. I started a new Untitled FLA, set the auto save to 1 minute, and over a minute later I Force Quit Flash Pro. When I opened Flash Pro again I was offered the chance to open the recovery file, and it shows the location. For me that was here:

~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Flash CC 2015/en_US/Configuration/

If you're on Windows, you could presumably do a similar thing, and use the Task Manager to kill Flash Pro. Then when you open it again, look at the location of the file you're being offered. The file you're trying to track down is likely to be in that same folder.

[kylewburns]

thank you thank you... this is still relevant for CC 2018 BTW. You just saved me hours!

[евгенийг75751598]

I can't figure out if it is possible to recover the Fla file? Because I tried a lot of options, tell me what do I do?

[benl13565393]

In the current version of Animate CC 2018 that I have, the recovery file (RECOVER_*) is in the same folder as the original file.

This seems coupled with another file

~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Animate CC 2018/en_US/Configuration/AutoRecoverFilenames.txt

That txt is simply a file that contains the full path to the recovery files.

Force quit then restarts will ask for the file. Once you've passed the dialog, the file is cleared out AND the RECOVER_* file will still remain.

[luckyfire86-_-]

I found the answer using WinDirStat a tool which shows you the size of your folders.

So the location your adobe cache is stored is called:

C:\Users\New\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\Media Cache Files

Deleted them, saved me 10 gigs

[stunning_athlete5EF8]

Where would I find it for windows tho

[UDESCO]

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Animate CC 2019\en_US\Configuration

[PVerhoeven]

I messed up a save, I looked for the recovery files but I cannot find any .fla files in this location?

[jayh88573682]

Hey! i am using animate cc 2018, once i got an Error message while opening the file, from that day i saved the multiple files but now i got same error message for all files. Should i Switch to another Software or is there any Permanent solution for this?