Auto Save Project does not contain main sequence

[Teresa273255434fw5]

Hi,

I spent hours editing my vlog, and I manually save it constantly. On top of that, there is an auto-save feature. I close the project, but when I open it again, my timeline was gone. I didn't panic yet, because I know I have a lot of auto-saves; however, I checked, and none of the auto-saves have the main sequence I've been working on.

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[Phillip Harvey]

Asking the obvious question here, but did you look for and reopen the sequence from the Project Panel?

A Sequence is like a piece of media that lives in the Project Panel. It contains your edit and opens up in the Timeline Panel. You can close a sequence and reopen it again, you can remove the Timeline Panel entirely.. it doesn't mean the sequence is gone.

 

[Teresa273255434fw5]

Yes I checked the project panel and it's not on there. 

[Suraj5EBF]

Can you share more info? Have you checked the Auto-save setting in Preferences? Please check the time of Autosave and the maximum project version number and you check the Automatically save projects check box.

Thanks,

Suraj.

[Stan Jones]

Yes, I'd be freaking out at this stage.

As Suraj suggests, if you had autosave set to save a backup to the cloud, did you check that one? (It gets coied over with newer versions.) How many autosaves do you have it set to? Do the timestamps make sense?

But PR just doesn't delete a sequence, and yes, if you accidentially deleted it, it would be in an autosave prior to that action. So I'm thinking of any way you can work on a sequence and then not be able to find that sequence when you reopen the project. None of the following possibilities seem likely, but here are my thoughts.

I might get that to happen if I create a new project (you can have more than one project open at a time), and then look in the older project. (How are you opening the project? From the recent project list? Anything odd there?) If you save a project to a different folder and have autosave set to the project folder, you would have to look in the other folder to find the autosaves for that new project.

I sometimes think a sequence is gone when I forget the name of the sequence I've been working in - or named it something other than what I thought I named it. Or I accidentally renamed it when I thought I was doing something else. I work on one keyboard that controls two computers. So let's say I'm working in PR on computer 1, and accidentally type with the keyboard set to computer 2. By the time I realize it, I have entered several letters (and I don't remember what they are), and some of them may have entered commands or text into PR.

You can type something in the Project Panel search field,and that will hide anything that doesn't match - even typing a space.

You can get inside one folder (in the Project Panel) and not see the content in other folders. (But it tells you in the Project Panel header that you're in a bin; and the default setting makes it more likely this folder "bin" would be in its own panel tab.)

As I say, not likely, but possible.

Stan