The thing is, if you just turned autosave on, it doesnt work.
It needs to be set to “To backup project” and it has to be saved.
Then Resolve will first write a full new project and then incremental updates to the database while you are working.
But is this has not been active prior to work, its probably lost or more precise, never happened.
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