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DMcD Productions
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September 19, 2014
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recover restore revive resuscitate a lost session

  • September 19, 2014
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I am about to start the re-edit of a complicated hour documentary because I apparently trashed the .sesx file by mistake and then diligently did my regular backup on my external which erased the .sesx over there.  Having recently switched to Adobe from APPLE, I looked for the Final Cut Pro auto-emergency-save-backup-every-five-minutes-because-the-editor-is-an-idiot option but, alas, I have learned that does not exist in Audition.  I have now added the step export-session-with-copied-all-media-ticked option at the end of every work day.  This is a rookie welcome-to-Adobe mistake, yes?  Is there some secret temporary stash of .sesx files that does not show up in a search?

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SuiteSpot
SuiteSpot
Inspiring
September 19, 2014

There has been an "Auto save recovery data every [user supplied] minutes" option under Preferences > Multitrack since at least CS5.5 and no there are no "secret temporary stash of .sesx files"

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DMcD ProductionsAuthor
Participating Frequently
September 19, 2014

I have the auto save recovery data box checked and set at every five minutes in preferences.  How do I recover this data if there is no .sesx project file?

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DMcD ProductionsAuthor
Participating Frequently
September 20, 2014

I am using CC 2014.

I emptied the trash after doing my brilliant backup so a complete computer search for all .sesx files confirmed it did not exists.

However, I found the temporary .sesx stash before you shut down Audition.  The path shows up if you try to Import>Application Setting into a multitrack session.  On a MAC it is in hidden files inside (user) LIBRARY>PREFERENCES>ADOBE>AUDITION>7.0  with a weird folder name. 

Yup, I am "oops".


This could be a RED ALERT for a bug regarding saving .sesx files.  Halfway through the re-edit of my lost session, I had some other sessions open and needed to stop so I saved all and closed all and quit Audition and shut down the computer.  When I started my computer again, one of the other .sesx files was gone and not in the trash.  I did not delete it by mistake.  Luckily I had exported the session so I had a copy, but this has now shifted from me screwing up to a mystery and possible bug issue.  If anyone has any thoughts, please let me know. 

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