My animate project keeps disappearing (on Mac)

[asha_0871]

Hi, when I save my Adobe animate file, the file and recovery file completely disappears from where I've saved it and is nowhere on my computer (like it never existed). This led to losing some of my project. I have learnt that after saving, I can make a quick edit to my project and save it again and then the files return back to where they were. I was wondering if anyone else has been experiencing this problem and if there's anything to fix it? It was working fine the other day and now not anymore.
Thanks

[kglad]

where are you saving it?

[asha_0871]

I was originally saving it in a folder but now on my desktop so I can keep an eye on it

[kglad]

i understand.  but what folder with what path?

[asha_0871]

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you mean. 

[kglad]

where did you save the disappearing fla?

[asha_0871]

Originally in a folder within a folder and now I've saved it on my desktop. 

[asha_0871]

As soon as I save it the files disapear and this alert shows up saying I need to save it again for it to exist and then I have to save it as a whole new fla file again but I'm scared if something happens and it crashes then I'll lose everything - I have to keep making new save files onmy hard drive just in case something happens again but its not ideal.

[asha_0871 · Accepted solution]

After some experimention and copying my timeline across to a new file, I found that the new file isn't having this problem so I think there may be a bug with my current file - thanks for the help but i think copying everything into a new file is the only solution.

Thanks

[caleb_7618]

This exact thing has been happening to me, and I can't figure out why.  After spending a couple hours on small projects over the weekend all 3 dissappeared from a folder i was saving them into on my desktop on my M4 macbook.  And not at once. So I don't understand what Im doing wrong.

 I did one. Saved it. Was able to open it again. Later in the day it was missing from the project list when opening the program. It was in the recent opened list, but when i tried to open it from there it told me it didnt exist and would remove it from the recent list.  This happened 3 times in a row.

The only thing I can think of is maybe i opened the project and closed it again without making a save but Im not sure if i did that all 3 times.  And no other program works like that so it doesnt make since for it to dissappear.

I am new to animate so would love to just hear that im doing something little wrong.

[kglad]

what path are you saving to?

[caleb_7618]

I dont have anything set in my preferances in the paths.  Is this what your refering to. Is that my problem?  I've just been using the save as function and saving the FLA to a folder on my desktop.

[kglad]

what folder and what file name?

[caleb_7618]

desktop/animator/11/8/25 skate 

[caleb_7618]

desktop/animator/11:8:25 skate

Actually probably this since it defaults dates to that instead of /.  Been trying to recreate the issue.

[caleb_7618]

actually it saves with the / but appears in animator with the :

[kglad]

use an underscore instead of slash or other punctuation marks 

[caleb_7618]

Gotten a file with / to dissappear a handfull of times and cant make my other tests dissappear so that does seem to be he issue. Thank you. Never seen that happen in any other software.

[kglad]

that slash indicates a directory.