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DragonflyRico
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August 19, 2025
Question

I can't find the .tpr file or local autosaves from a team project.

  • August 19, 2025
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I worked through the weekend to meet a deadline coming up this week on a team project in Premiere Pro.  Friday afternoon I was able to save and publish my work, but the publish buttom became greyed out Saturday/Sunday.  So Sunday night I tried multiple steps to publish my work and eventually the system crashed and I had to force quit.  I have auto save set to every 5 minutes on this project, but can't seem to find any versions from Sunday saved anywhere.  Can someone help me locate this?  Also, in the media browser when I right click on my project and select team project auto-saves, it shows no version history between Friday and Monday when a coworker jumped into the project and published twenty minutes of their work on the version from Friday I had published.  Lastly, I was going to try to refresh the local .tpr file but can't find that either.  I see the path to the .tpr file in the auto-save section of team settings, but can't locate it in my finder window.  Any help would be so appreciated!

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Udo_Pawlik
Adobe Employee
August 19, 2025

Hi @DragonflyRico,

Sorry for your troubles. To get to the default 'Auto Save' location:

On Windows: Paste the string into the file explorer address bar: %AppData%\Adobe\Common\Team Projects Local Hub

On Mac: Open the 'Go > Go to folder...' menu (Cmd+Shift+G) and paste following string into the text field: ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Team Projects Local Hub


The Media Browser has two sections for Team Projects, 'Versions' and 'Auto-Saves'.
A new version is added every time any collaborator publishes changes, an auto-save entry gets added for any edit on your machine. The auto-save interval preference setting only applies to local .prproj projects and does not apply to a Team Project. 
In case Team Project runs into troubles either saving locally or sync'ing with the server you should see a corresponding message in the sync status in the header bar. 

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DragonflyRicoAuthor
Participant
August 19, 2025

Oh ok, so the Team Projects don't auto-save like a normal project, where I'd actually see multiple versions of the project as they autosave.  Am I understanding that correctly?  If so, what is the best practice to save work in a team project as you go along?  The issue in my case was that because Premiere froze and the publish button wasn't working, I only had a version available from Friday, when I had worked on the project Satuday and Sunday as well.  Luckily, Sunday night when things started to seem off, I exported an XML and realized this morning I could bring that back into a new project, so in the end this saved me the loss of days of work.  But, I still want to know the best practice to save and access work regularly without manually having to do so.  It seems like I can "Save As" to create local backups of the project as I go, but again, that's a manual fix I have to do regularly.  Ideally an autosave feature is available to save the work as you go...any help is welcome!

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Adobe Employee
Udo_Pawlik
Adobe Employee
August 19, 2025

I'm glad you were able to recover your work via the exported XML. Yes, you understood the part regarding 'Auto-Save' in context of Team Project correctly - "When working on a Team Project, every edit you make in the project is automatically saved locally. It's also synced automatically to Adobe Cloud service."
'Save As' will not create a local copy but create another 'Team Project'. You could convert the Team Project to a local project for backup purposes via 'Edit > Team Project > Convert Team Project to Project...'.

It is good practice to keep an eye on the Sync status indicator and periodically Publish your changes. This would flush out any events where Premiere has trouble saving and limit possible loss of work. 


View auto saves and versions of Team Project
Specify Auto Save cache location
View auto saves

Create a new Team Project from a version

HTH,
Udo

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