Where is my autosave file?

[Peter Garaway]

Hi Sohrab,

By default the autosave ‘saves’ to the same location as your Project. /Users/[username]/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro

But you can specify where you want it to save. You can check where it’s currently saving to by File> Project Settings> Scratch Disks

Hope this is useful.

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Sohrab Sandhu]

Hi Peter

I tried looking in the project folder (which is where scratch drive is poiniting) but no luck. Only the version from an hour ago.

Sohrab

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[Adam Spencer]

“I tried looking in the project folder (which is where scratch drive is poiniting) but no luck. Only the version from an hour ago.”

Old thread, but this is my problem exactly. Premiere Pro CC 2014 just crashed, and I lost half an hour of work. I checked my autosaves, and there are 20 autosave files, yet the last one has not been saved for 90 minutes. The auto save is set to the default of every 15 minutes.

So why didn’t it save? This has happened to me a few times in the past actually. A sudden crash, and I remember even seeing PP auto-save my project just before the crash….yet when I load the autosave file, it’s from like an hour earlier!

[Michael Ron]

Premiere has some strict autosave restrictions – it will only autosave if you have unsaved changes in your project. So if you have your autosave interval set to 20 minutes, and 20 minutes have passed since the last autosave but you manually saved your work a minute ago, Premiere will skip the autosave and try again in 20 minutes.
The software will also skip autosaving while playback is running in full screen mode.

I would suggest you re-set your autosave interval for around 5 minutes, work for a while without saving manually, and check to see that it is actually autosaving.

[Craig Swanson]

don’t check the last autosave file #20. It could be #10 or #2. Search those autosave files by time/date. It is just a revolving feature that resaves starting at #1 after #20 and the process starts all over again.

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[Bobby Matchurek]

Peter, can you clarify your answer please?

i.e. Adobe Premiere Pro has just crashed. I go to open up my project. I do, but it’s not an autosaved version. It’s not even the last one I saved, it’s a very old version. Wow, this sucks, hours of work, GONE. But what is the click path to accessing the autosaved files? Can I access it from my project that crashed? Or do I have to root into some directory?

For the amount of times PPro crashes, I would hope adobe set-up recovering via autosave easily within the crashed project.

[Edmond Toma]

Hi. Just wanted to see if I’m misunderstanding what I’m reading. I don’t know when this information was updated.

From:
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/preferences.html#change_the_auto_save_settings

“Note:
When you specify auto-save to occur at regular intervals, Premiere Pro auto-saves a project on detecting changes to the project file.

The auto-save occurs irrespective of whether you manually save the changes to the project or not. Earlier, Premiere Pro would not execute auto-save if you manually saved within the interval setting. If the system goes idle for a period beyond the interval setting, Premiere Pro forces an auto-save.”

I read this to mean that Premiere will autosave regardless if you manually save as you work. I was having some issues with missing saves.

Regards,
Ed

[Ritz Chand]

Have you tried looking in the Public Documents. I had the same issue but I found my auto save files in the Public Documents.

Cheers.

[Ann Bens]

Make a habit of Save a Copy to another drive.
One cannot always rely on auto save.

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[Greg Janza]

My recommendation is to set your autosave to a google drive location ( or dropbox, etc.) and not in a folder next to the main project.

In addition, the age old rule of actively saving the project as often as possible still remains.

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