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July 28, 2015
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Flash auto recovery save location

  • July 28, 2015
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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?

Correct answer Colin Holgate

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.

5 replies

jayh88573682
Participant
August 18, 2019

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?

Participant
November 4, 2018

Where would I find it for windows tho

UDESCO
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
November 5, 2018

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

PVerhoeven
Participating Frequently
May 21, 2019

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

Participant
September 4, 2015

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

Colin Holgate
Colin HolgateCorrect answer
Inspiring
July 29, 2015

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
Participant
December 4, 2017

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

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 28, 2015

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

Colin Holgate
Inspiring
July 28, 2015

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
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 28, 2015

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