Recovering corrupted autosave

[HBren993]

I was working in Animate 2021 (Windows) and it crashed - I lost my file and hadn't saved it (I know, I know) but I'd seen it autosave while working on it. After I reopened Animate it didn't prompt me with a recovery file as it usually would, so I found it in the config folder but when I try to open it I get the 'There was an error opening file 'x'"

I assume it was corrupted as the program crashed mid-autosave. Is there any way to fix this? Thanks

[kglad]

usually not.  but ~10% of time you can rename that corrupted fla to a rar>repair it using winrar>rename the repaired rar to a fla>try opening the fla.

note:  if the fla is ridiculously small no sense bothering.

learn to save your fla with an increasing version number appended to its name.  eg, project1.fla>save as project1_v000.fla>next save as project1_v001.fla> next save etc

[HBren993]

Thanks for the response. I did find something about using rar files when I googled my problem originally, but I can't work out how to change the file format - usually I can do that just by renaming it, but there's no .fla on the file name to rename where I usually would.

Any idea how I do that? I know chances are slim but it's worth a go if I can get it working!

[JoãoCésar]

Hi.

If you're on Windows 10, open Windows Explorer and check File name extensions under the View menu.

For more approaches that may help recovering the FLA, please read this answer:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate/lost-my-work/m-p/11783444#M339958

Regards,

JC

[HBren993]

Brilliant thanks so much