There is a tool in preferences to change when auto save triggers.

I stopped using auto-save a long time ago because this happened to me as well. I always just manually save.

I don't know how much of Animate lives on top of the old Flash codebase, but this was a common problem back when it was Flash.

After spending most of yesterday working on an animation, I opened the file only to discover that nothing from 5pm onwards had saved and I had lost everything I had worked on for the rest of the evening.

I don't know why nothing saved from that point onwards, there's no way I didn't manually save at some point during that session and I know for a fact I saved when shutting down my computer for the night.

I'm just so fucking done, there is no auto-recover file, no way to get it back. I'm just so fucking pissed and needed to vent.

Animate didn't save my work fml