Recover Adobe Illustrator files after a crash

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Learn how to recover your Illustrator files after a crash using built-in recovery methods.

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Recover files using auto-recovery

After a crash, follow these steps immediately:

Restart Illustrator. If Illustrator didn't close during the crash and isn't responding, force quit it from the Activity Monitor (macOS) or the Task Manager (Windows), and then restart.

Wait for Illustrator to initiate the auto-recovery process. After the process completes, it opens all the unsaved files with the suffix Recovered in the filename.

Select File > Save As to save the file.

Recover files from the auto-backup location

If the auto-recovery process didn’t show your files or you closed them by mistake, you can still recover them from the auto-backup location. If you chose a different location for auto-backup, go to that location to recover them.

หมายเหตุ:

These steps won't work for Illustrator versions 29.2 to 29.8 that use .aishm files for recovery.

macOS

Select Go in the menu bar and then select Go to Folder.

Type ~/Library/ and press Return.

Navigate to Preferences/Adobe Illustrator <version> Settings/<locale>/DataRecovery.

Open the files with the .ai or .aid extension in Illustrator to recover the content.

Windows

Type %AppData% in Windows Search to access the Roaming folder in your Windows user profile.

Navigate to Adobe\Adobe Illustrator <version> Settings\<locale>\x64\DataRecovery.

Open the files with the .ai or .aid extension in Illustrator to recover the content.

Auto-backup of unsaved files is activated by default. If you can't find your unsaved files in the auto-backup location, ensure you turn on the settings for the future.

หมายเหตุ:
  • If Illustrator crashes between the specified auto-backup time intervals, you may notice some data loss. 
  • If Illustrator crashes again during data recovery, the auto-backup and recovery settings turn off automatically. You must turn them on again.