Auto save lost sequences

[Kagent]

Hi there! 

I read so many articles and forums, and watched so many videos, that I'm already desperate if I'm ever going to fix this. Here's what happened to me.

Premiere blocked and because I didn't want to wait, I closed it instead of waiting it to fix itself. It asked me if I want to save the project and I was stupid enough to click 'Yes'. 

After I reopened my project, all in the timeline was gone. 

Fortunately I use auto-save, so I found the last few versions of my project.

I was opening them one by one, but none of them had my sequences. The timeline was empty in all of them. 

I noticed that the file for my project that Premiere usually creates automatically when you start a sequence, is also gone.

I can't figure out what might have happen. I'm not creating videos often, so I'm not used to Premiere so much, but crashing happened before and it was never like this.

I would appreciate any suggestions. 

Thank you!

[Michael Grenadier]

Please tell us your system specs: OS version, Premiere version, amount of RAM, Hardware specs including graphics card.  If you want to send me your latest autosave before the problem occured, I'll open it (albeit with out the media) and see if I see the sequence).  Just DM me by clicking on my adobe username above this post (mgrenadier) and I'll send you my email address...

[Kagent]

I sent you the file, thank you very much! 

Premiere Pro CC. OS is Windows 8, 6GB RAM, Processor is Intel i5, Graphic card is Nvidia.

[Ann Bens]

Make a habit of Save a Copy to another drive.

FAQ: When to use "Save A Copy," or "Save As," and ...

[Kagent]

Oh, thank you! That was very useful! 

But do you think that the auto-save files were corrupted somehow and that's the reason why they are not full? And that "Save a Copy" would prevent that from happening?

[Michael Grenadier]

sorry, no luck with the autosave and besides just opening it, I've tried importing it into a new project and using digital rebellions project repair.  you haven't told us the version of premiere and the autosave is from an earlier version of premiere CC but it doesn't tell me which version.   I'm running 14.0.3.  You can find the version in the Premiere menu:  about Premiere Pro.  you only have 6 gigs of ram which is insufficient to run recent versions of Premiere and may be the source of the problem.  

[Kagent]

It's 12.0

But I've been using Premiere only on this computer, with the same RAM, and I never had this problem before. I also have enough space on my hard. 

Do you think there is something that I did wrong while saving and auto saving?

[Michael Grenadier]

I don't know, but I do know that if you're working on a system that doesn't meet minimum specs you're taking risks.    Sorry I couldn't help.

[Michael Grenadier]

and if you have to keep working with this system, do as Ann suggested and do a save as frequently.  I don't know if that will prevent this from happening again, but worth a shot.

[Ann Bens]

It wont prevent from what ever has happend but it will save your work.

[Peru Bob]

Did you look in your media panel to see if the sequence might be there and just needed to be opened?

[Michael Grenadier]

Hey Peru Bob, I opened his autosave project and couldn't find a sequence.  What do you mean by the media panel?  

[Peru Bob]

I meant to type Project Panel, not Media Panel.

[Kagent]

That's what I meant by "I noticed that the file for my project that Premiere usually creates automatically when you start a sequence, is also gone.".

Unfrtunately that's also gone and I can't figure out why all of this happened just by Premiere crashing.