[Kaspar Kilchenmann]

sadly not…

ok, seems that i have to wrap my head around the fact that a big chunck of this project is lost then

gladly the main animations were already rendered out and by now its only some little animated text comps that i have to redo – i just hope there wont be any changes requesting the main animation…

for next time: collecting and reducing a project does NOT create copies?
so, if i have to send out a reduced version of a project, but still wana keep the big one to myself, i have to make a copy of the AE project in the finder and then reduce the duplicated version of the project in AE? (because i thought recalling after effects CS4 doing a copy automatically of the current project when i collected and reduced a project)

[Kaspar Kilchenmann]

first: thanks a lot for the super quick response!!

i just checked, but no; the auto save option was not turned on (i did turn it on for not running into anything like that ever again!)

are there any other possibilities to recover an earlier status of a project?