Note Finder does not normally show the Library folder by default but this can be accessed by holding down the alt key and choosing 'Go' on the Finder menu. Here the animation is stored as a sequence of png files named after the. I saved under a new name in my normal directories and I am back where I need to be. But for Blenders fail-safe system to work it is best to save your work once.

Two were dated today and corrupted but the third was clean and opened fine. The xxxx is a alpha numeric system assigned name not recognisable to me and there were 3 files there with different names of the same sort but recognisable as fla files. users//Library/Application Support/Adobe/Animate CC 2018/en_US/Configuration/TMPxxxxxxxxxx.fla The files were found in the following directory: Prefab Mode has an Auto Save setting in the top right corner of the Scene view. After quite a lot of poking around I recovered a file from just a few days ago when I had last had it opened without any corruption. In the following image, the root of the Prefab is a regular GameObject. I could not find a file with the name Recovery_ anywhere and no back ups of any sort in the same folder as the original. I tried to force close Animate again to get into recovery mode but could not get it to offer available recovery files. Auto save feature would be a welcome addition as no offence but CA4 does crash from time to time (But thats another subject - autosave would mitigate against. I had a similar problem as this, where a crash failed to open recovery options.

Cartoon animator 4 autosave after crash