Premier Elements 12 auto-save location

My daughter is working in Premier Elements 12 on a .mov file. She did about 2 hours of movie editing and the program shut down unexpectedly. The program was saving as she went, but she can not find her file. Any ideas on where the program would put the auto-saved files?

Cjenzo
If she is working on Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 64 bit and installed everything to its default locations, the the AutoSaves will be saved in the path...and will be found in the Adobe Premiere Elements Auto-Save Folder at the end of the path
Libraries
Documents
Adobe
Premiere Elements
12.0
Adobe Premiere Elements Auto-Save
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premiereelements/using/WSA4213223-A072-483f-9A0A-B8A95742C2AE. html
Please review and then let us know the outcome when you get the time.
Thank you.
ATR

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ATR
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Please let us know if that works for you. If not, then please let us know where you need supplemental help to get the task completed. I will re-write if necessary.
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Thank you.
ATR
Add On...A little side note for later...If you took your file saved to the computer hard drive and imported that back into Premiere Elements with Premiere Elements' Add Media/Files and Folders, you would get
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If the ideas seem overwhelming, please take the steps on one at a time and follow exactly what is written. You should do fine.

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•What operating system? This should include specific minor version numbers, like "Mac OSX v10.6.8"---not just "Mac".
•Have you installed any recent program or OS updates? (If not, you should. They fix a lot of problems.)
•What kind(s) of image file(s)? When talking about camera raw files, include the model of camera.
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•What were you doing when the problem occurred?
•What other software are you running?
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•Has this ever worked before? If so, do you recall any changes you made to Premiere Elements, such as adding Plug-ins, brushes, etc.? Did you make any changes to your system, such as updating hardware, printers or drivers; or installing/uninstalling any programs?
And some other questions...
•What are you editing, and does your video have a red line over it BEFORE you do any work?
•Have you viewed the tutorial links at http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1275830 page?
•Which version of Quicktime do you have installed?
What is your exact brand/model graphics adapter (ATI or nVidia or ???)
What is your exact graphics adapter driver version?
Have you gone to the vendor web site to check for a newer driver?
-If Windows, do NOT rely on Windows Update to have current driver information
-you need to go direct to the vendor web site and check updates for yourself
ATI Driver Autodetect http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/auto-detect-tool
nVidia Driver Downloads http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

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From the Premiere Elements Information FAQ http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1042180
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Is there an update link for Premier 9? I saw one come through this morning for 9.0.3 but the one in your "Hangs UP" thread is only for 9.0.1. Tried to update to 9.0.3 but would not connect to Adobe server this morning.
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 07:59:26 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Windows shuts down Premier Elements 9 randomly
Re: Windows shuts down Premier Elements 9 randomly created by Bill Hunt in Premiere Elements - View the full discussion
This first thing that I would do is to gather more information, and post it to this thread. See this article on the types of info, that would be so useful: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3220274#3220274
Also, take a look at this FAQ Entry, on PrE Hanging & Crashing: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/792580?tstart=0
Good luck, and let us know a bit more, please.
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Premier Elements 10 crashed when I reset my monitor panel (Windows Restore Workspace). I cannot retrieve my saved work. Advice please?

Premier Elements 10 has crashed (again) Usually I follow the procedure and recover the work.
This time I cannot recover either the original or the Copy.
The crash happened when I tried to restore the monitor from a separate monitor.
I pressed Windows<Restore<Workspace and it crashed.
There is 5 gb of work sitting there which I cannot access.
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Wivenhoe Bob
What computer operating system is your Premiere Elements 10 running on and does the computer use a NVIDIA GeForce video card/graphics card?
Please read the Announcement at the top of this forum on the Premiere Elements 10 NVIDIA Ge Force issue which forces the user to roll back the driver version to around May 2013 in order to work with Premiere Elements 10. For your convenience, the following is a copy/paste of that Announcement.
Announcement:Premiere Elements 10 NVIDIA Video Card Driver Roll Back
If you are a Premiere Elements 10 user whose Windows computer uses a NVIDIA GeForce video card and you are
experiencing Premiere Elements 10 display and/or unexplained program behavior, then your first line of
troubleshooting needs to be rolling back the video card driver version instead of assuring that it is up to date.
Since October 2013 to the present, there have been a growing number of reports about display and unexplained
workflow glitches specific to the Premiere Elements 10 user whose Windows computer has a NVIDIA GeForce video
card. If this applies to you, then the “user to user” remedy is to roll back the NVIDIA GeForce video card driver as
far as is necessary to get rid of the problems. The typical driver roll back has gone back as far as March – July 2013
in order to get a working Premiere Elements 10. Neither NVIDIA nor Adobe has taken any corrective action in this
regard to date, and none is expected moving forward.
Since October 2013, the following thread has tried to keep up with the Premiere Elements 10 NVIDIA reports
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1317675
Older NVIDIA GeForce drivers can be found
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us
A February 2014 overview of the situation as well as how to use the older NVIDIA GeForce drivers for the driver
roll back can be found
http://atr935.blogspot.com/2014/02/pe10-nvidia-video-card-roll-back.html
Do you run the program with the AutoSave feature On? If so, please check the Adobe Premiere Elements AutoSave Folder which should be (by default)
in Libraries/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Elements/10.0 Then right click the latest AutoSave for this crashed project and select Open With Adobe Premiere Elements 10.0.
Where do you save the project.prel for this project?
Can you go to that hard drive save location (probably LIbraries/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Elements/10.0), right click the project.prel file, and select
Open With Adobe Premiere Elements 10.0.
If necessary, I will post instructions for deleting the Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs file and, if necessary, the whole 10.0 Folder in which it exists.
We will be watching for your details and results.
Thank you.
ATR

PE 13 - Project not compatible with current version of premier elements

I have PE 13 (recently installed on a system that also has PE 10)
I archived in PE 10 to a location, openend up the project with PE 13 and it appears to open just fine. I then save and close it and try to open it up a 2nd time and it fails with the error: "Project Not compatible with current version of premier elements"
I attempted to move all the media outside of the "Copied_XXX" folder per the troubleshooting steps, but it still fails even with all the media in a different location. Funny thing is that it knows about the media still because it appears in the loading content status bar at the very bottom left of the screen. it completes all 600 or so loads, but they are definitely not on timeline or listed in project assets.
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stegeler
There is no guarantee that a project created in an earlier version will open in a later one. The classical recommendation is to finish a project in the version in which it is created.
If you do want to try to edit the project created in the earlier version in the later version, then make sure to work from a copy of the original. Once you edit the project created in the earlier version in the later version, you cannot go back to edit the later version edited project in the earlier version.
If you have your Premiere Elements 10 project archived, then you do not want to go moving copies of the project's source media outside that Copied Folder. The copy of the project file in that folder needs to trace back to that copied media in that Copied Folder. What you are seeing in Premiere Elements 13 is probably conforming of audio and video files, processing of rendered files, and such, maybe even some indexing. You do not want to proceed in Premiere Elements 13 until you do not see any further activity in the progress bar at the bottom right of the workspace. Have Premiere Elements 10 and 13 been on the same computer?
How did you open the project file in the Copied Folder - right clicked the project file, Open With, and then selected Adobe Premiere Elements 13? What is the duration of the Timeline of the original project in 10?
Have you been working with a copy of the Copied Folder and its contents?
More on this in the morning.
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