Hello peraltaj,
Thanks for the message. If the drive is dead and that is the only place you kept project and put your auto-saves there, as well, you have likely lost the files. You might want to contact a drive recovery service. That's really your only hope at this stage.
We used to have cloud sync, but no longer, sorry about that. Personally, I set my auto saves to my Drop Box folder and that has been working well to create an automatic backup online. You may want to do that moving forward to prevent such losses in the future.
The rule of thumb for editors and backups reads, "If you don't have three locations for your backups, you don't have a backup." I know. A bit over the top, but it works. Sorry this happened to you. You're not alone. I hope that you can recover the material on your drive. Good luck.
Thanks, Kevin
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