My Project disappeared!!

Hi,
I am new to premeir pro and I have been working on my project since 8 days and I used to open the project from last saved, now today when I opened my last save it was all empty and I don't remember where I saved my project location (it is definetly not in user account as I read in the replies above) 

Please hep me.

This keeps happening to me. I've got loads of backups, autosaves, etc but for some reason whenever I open the most recent piece of work it reverts to a much older saved state.

I've got the MP4 files as acccessible "completed" backups but its incredibly annoying if I want to go back and tweak certain effects in the timeline.

Why this keeps happening I have not a clue.

I just had this happened to me. At the end of the working day, I saved the project as how I usually would, then closed all Adobe programs (had AE and AME open too) before shutting down the computer then the network server that the files are all located in. Our projects are set up with its own Master folder and has its respective Adobe Autosave folders in it. The next day, the current project file is gone. No where to be found. No trace of it in Adobe's recent project list. Did a PC search, both through date and name with no success. It is as if the project file never existed but all the Autosaves are still intact. My work progress is unaffected because of this, but it seems that some people had their autosaves disappeared too.

Here's what I'm running on

Adobe PP 13.1.5 

macOS Mojave

3.1GHz Intel Core i5

40GB 2667 MHz DDR4

Radeon Pro 575X 4GB

Although I am unaffected this time, I am worried that my Autosaves would disappear as well the next time. We work with tight deadlines and cannot afford to restart projects from scratch. Our network server is set up that if a file is deleted from the server the connected computer instead of host, it will forever be gone. It will not be in any of the computers' trash. This is scary stuff. Although the general consensus is that PP does not delete files, I think it is a very likely possibility if there are that many people facing the same issue. We already know that PP was deleting media files in previous versions.

Some users suggested that it may be caused by the media cache settings. Here's my settings. All settings have not been changed from the default. 

I have completely lost a brand new project. I put about 2 hours into it. Not the most amount of time, but still, I'd rather not redo everything. Of course I have now spent almost as much time reading this very aggravating thread only to find zero help. I have done searches upon searches on all my drives. No trace. But my computer’s search function has been quirky lately, so I pressed on.

I experienced it as odd that when I specified the save-to folder upon creating the project, the project file did not show up where I put it. I couldn't find it anywhere else, either, but it was in my “recent projects” cue, and I could quit the program and restart it and still find it, so I figured it had to be somewhere! I decided that maybe it would show up after I saved it? Or closed PP? I've never encountered this with any software before, and I've been using computers for longer than I haven’t been using computers, so I had no reason to suspect the file would simply cease to exist upon closing. Ironically, the project is called, "Issues" and that is what I'm having!

Here's what has happened so far. I created the project, closed the project, couldn't find the project, went to open recent projects, it was in the cue, I did some work, exported a rough edit. closed the project, still on the cue, not findable anywhere on my entire system, ejected the external hard drive it was supposed to be on. Looked in the recent project cue. No sign of the project. Rebooted the drive. Project is no longer in the cue. Quit PP. Restarted PP. Project is nowhere to be found. It’s not in the recent files list or anywhere for that matter. There are no auto-saves of this file in the known universe from what I can tell.

I use AND PAY FOR the cloud version 13.5 b/c I still use Mojave and not Catalina. When I tried opening 14 on my mac the program locked up immediately. So, using PP as I Always have, I created a new project, imported files, made multiclips, exported movies, saved the file multiple times. Saw the auto-save kick in multiple times. Everything was basically normal. BUT...now it's just GONE! 

And the woman, Ann, who works for Adobe? Sorry, I know we're supposed to be nice, but she is super condescending. Super unhelpful. Super presumptuous. Hopefully she's been reprimanded, retrained and/or fired. R Neil isn’t much nicer, but at least he attempts to offer real solutions

To the techs at Adobe, stop being defensive and consider that maybe, just maybe, if 40 experienced people have lost their projects, there could be a problem with your product!

My one single most recentl;y worked on project disappeared on me, and I searched and restarted with no luck..., I updated Premiere Pro and it appeared once again. Very interesting.

Ok! I found mine under Documents > Adobe > Premiere Pro > 14.0 > Adobe Premiere Pro Auto-Save.
Thank goodness.

Hi something similar just happened to me. One specific project I was working on before switching to from MAC to PC. I had double backed up my project files for the move. This particular project was something I finished before the move but  now a request has come up and need to refer back to this project. It's not in my backup files or any auto save files that I transferred to the PC. I  go to my Mac to see maybe I missed saving it on my back up drive. I see NO TRACE of this project except for video preview files in the Cache folders. How could a specific project and its' auto save files just disappear while other project files I had worked on around the same time as this one are still in tact??

Is there a back end way to find what happened ? Log or task manager on the Mac?

This is an absolute abomination. My entire project - has disappeared. This is my first time using Premiere for a large project being a mostly avid editor and this is exactly the kind of reason why I will continue to be an avid editor. Where is the answer Adobe? Project gone. Autosaves gone. It's an utter disgrace.

I just had a project disappear. Vanished. Poof, gone. Spent an hour searching. The folder is ther with all my AE graphics and footage but the .prproj files are not on my PC. I searched everything. Auto save dates are showing like the past 3 weeks I haven't shown up for work. Crazy.

I had This happen to me just 3 days ago. My premiere pro app disappeared. Here is the story. Because I could not open a PP file that was sent to me, I had to update to the latest version. I thought this was odd since the person sending me the file also had PP 2019. But I did not have the latest (same) version.  However what happened was as I was updating the app to the latest version I canceled the update because I read that it could cause problems with the  PP files on my computer. Presto the app disappeared.   So I had to reload the update and presto the app was back on again  My files were not affected.