Flash auto recovery save location

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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.

jayh88573682

Participant

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?

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stunning_athlete5EF8

Participant

Where would I find it for windows tho

UDESCO

Adobe Employee

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

PVerhoeven

Participating Frequently

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

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luckyfire86-_-Author

Participant

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 HolgateCorrect answer

Inspiring

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.