Premiere Pro - 4 months worth of project files missing

[defaultld18a9aobgvd]

I got onto Premiere Pro 2024 today and discovered that 4 months of editing projects have dissapeared. I have tried searching through the autosave folder and there's nothing since July on there. I did recently clear a few things off my internal SSD to clear space adn the only thing that I can possibly point to was clearing the Premiere 2023 application. It wouldn't make sense to me as to why this would delete those files especially since every project from 2023 to July 2024 is still there. I can still see the video previews from a few of the projects since then as well as the encoder and premiere pro prefs, but nothing else.

Unfirtunately, this happened days before I was able to double back my whole laptop, so no luck there. I still have all of the source media as that was saved seperately. I used data recovery software as well and nothing showed up. Any Ideas?

I have a 2021 MacBook M1 running Sequoia 15.0. 

[Peru Bob]

I'm not a Mac user, but see if something here might help:

https://www.macworld.com/article/2100497/how-to-recover-deleted-files-on-mac-6-working-ways.html

[Carlos Ziade]

try to check for other locations:

~/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/Auto-Save/

~/Library/Caches/Adobe/Premiere Pro/

~/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/[version]/Preview Files/

also try to search from Terminal:

find / -name "*.prproj" -newermt "2024-07-01"

[PaulMurphy]

Were the project files saved on an external drive that’s been ejected or disconnected?