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How to recover projects in Premiere Pro

Premiere Pro quit unexpectedly? Learn how to recover the last saved state of your open projects.

You can now easily recover and continue working on your Premiere Pro projects after a crash.

Restore project through Recovery Mode

Restore the latest saved version of your Premiere Pro project by doing the following:

  1. After a crash, open Premiere Pro. You'll get a pop-up stating, "Premiere Pro quit unexpectedly while a project was open."

    The image shows pop-up saying, "Premiere Pro quit unexpectedly while 3 projects were open."
    Premiere Pro can also restore multiple open projects after a crash.

    Caution:

    The restoration pop-up won’t appear again if dismissed or the next time the application launches.

  2. Select Reopen to open all the projects in the state they were available before the application was closed unexpectedly. If you save the restored project with the current changes, it will be saved to the main file.

  3. If you wish to restore previous versions of your projects, you can revert to the last user-saved state by using File > Revert.

TipReduce the intervals between autosaves to ensure Premiere Pro frequently backs up your project and reduces project loss in case of a crash.

Restore projects manually

You can also manually restore your projects by doing the following:

  1. Navigate to your project folder.

  2. Inside the Auto-Save folder, you'll find a subfolder named RecoveryProjects, which should have a file for each project. This is the save created when Premiere Pro crashes or is forced to quit.

  3. If you wish to restore to a previous version of an autosaved file, open the Auto-Save folder and select between the various time-stamped versions.


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