FATAL ERROR - LOST MY PROJECT

[leedeering]

Last night a fatal error occurred, and it asked if I wanted to save my changes for recovery in the corresponding job folder on my hard drive , to which I answered yes.  I then had to go to Task Manager, (Windows 11), and End Task.  When I looked for the dwg file in the folder, it wasn't there.  I did a search of my entire PC for any dwg file saved yesterday, and it wasn't there.  I have several hours of work invested in that drawing and I'm not anxious to start over, but that may be my only solution.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

[pendean · Accepted solution]

Have you had a chance to do all of these recovery options yet https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/how-to-recover-los...

[rwrightWMDSY]

Did you try looking in your Auto save file location?  Look for .bak or .sv$ files. 

[leedeering]

Yay! It was in the Temp folder with a .bak extension, but it had the right date and time stamp, so I changed it to a .dwg and it opened perfectly.  Thank you, Pandean!  You saved me a bunch of time.

Lee