Can't Find Premiere Auto-Save Folder

[gzabolocky]

Anyone else have this problem?  My C-drive is filling up and a friend of mine, who also uses Premiere CS5, told me he periodically deletes whatever is saved in his Premiere Auto-Save folder and Preview-File folder to free up hard drive space.  The problem is, I can find my Preview-File folder under My Documents/Adobe/5.0, but I can't find my Auto-Save folder, even after doing a Search in WIndows 7.  Any idea's where it could be because I can't do anymore video editing projects until I free up space on my C-drive.  Right now, I only have 1.7 Gb remaining on a 160 Gb hard drive.  Thanks.

[Harm_Millaard]

It is a subdirectory 'Adobe Premiere Pro Auto-Save' in your video project directory.

BTW, you are treading on very, very dangerous ground here, only a single disk, filled over 95% is inviting disaster to strike. Maybe that is why you need the auto save file.

[Ninarama]

Well I just lost about 60 minutes of tedious video editing work because Auto-Save JUST. DID. NOT. WORK. AT. ALL. It was set to save every 20 minutes and keep 5 versions.

And when I tried to export the media, it instantly crashed.

It didn't keep a single one and I'm quite outraged.

Unfortunately, I didn't find any "secret folder" containing the autosave files, it's just gone.

I'm using Premiere CS6 6.0.5

[excited_Genie16B8]

I just lost about 60 minutes of tedious video editing work

You can help end that problem by submitting the following feature request.  Tell your friends.  We needs lots of requests to make this happen!

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1369232?tstart=0

[Mark Mapes]

Very sorry to hear that auto-save let you down, Ninarama. In CS6, each time you manually saved the project, that reset the autosave "clock." So if you manually saved on a regular basis (i.e., more often than the "Auto-save every n minutes"), then auto-save would not kick in. We therefore recommend that in CS6, instead of hitting CTRL+S/CMD+S to save, you use either the Save As (Ctrl+Shift+S/CMD+Shift+S) or Save a Copy (Ctrl+Alt+S/CMD+Alt+S) command, at least periodically.

In CC, auto-save has been decoupled from manual saves. (So a bug report or feature request about auto-save behavior in CS6 will not serve much of a purpose.)

[Ninarama]

Thanks for the reply. Yes it seems I had to save at least once before. I opened an older project to continue and autosave never happened. Now that I saved once, it seems to work again.

It's just that I'm already used to all the other programs like Photoshop having extremely robust recovery, like, you could pull the plug in the middle of the work (or have a bluescreen, pullig the plug won't work on my notebook ) and it would still recover a lot.

[Peru Bob]

You should consider a manual backup procedure to a backup drive to avoid losing your work.

[Stephen_Spider]

The auto save files hardly take up any space.

You need a dedicated Video drive. It is listed right there in the basic requirements of the software. You are at a point now where your system will likely not perform properly.

[IPE_Aussie]

I found mine in the backup auto save folder mentioned above 'Adobe Premiere Pro Auto-Save' but it was saved under a different title auto save that i was working on previously. Sort the autosaves by the latest modify or created etc. and try load that.

[The Surgery Room]

Try doing a search in "All My Files" for your project name with "-1" on the end of the name. Sometimes it will reset my Auto Save Location if I've been switching back and forth between multiple projects.

I found mine in here.