Autosaves lost

Dorico
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I have Dorico preferences set to autosave every 5 minutes. Dorico crashed as I was ending my work last night. This morning, there were no autosaves for the last 3 days and my file’s date is 3 days ago. I typically manually save every hour or so. I don’t know why it wasn’t saving. I lost 3 days worth of work.

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If you saved the file yesterday, then it can’t possibly have been replaced by one 3 days earlier.
So either it didn’t save, or it saved somewhere else.

Do a search of the disk for Dorico files with a modification date of yesterday.

Check the Trash.

What about the Dorico Backups folder?

You should have your system backup, at least, e.g. Time Machine, if you’re on a Mac.

What was the cause of the crash? Can you provide a Diagnostic Report?

3

I know how my file system works and where my files are at (Windows). I checked all of that already. All my files are in OneDrive too. There are no versions of the files between 6/19 4pm and today in OneDrive. I think Dorico was not saving. The crash report is attached.

Dorico Diagnostics.zip (1.9 MB)

4

There are no crash files in your diagnostics, so Dorico would have deleted the auto-save files when you closed Dorico.

5

They are normally moved to the Trash, which is slightly different from deleted.

Is this the relevant file?

2026-06-21 17:52:03.601 [info] Backup file C:/Users/PaulM/OneDrive - The University of South Dakota/Scores/Star Quilt/Star Quilt.dorico -> C:/Users/PaulM/OneDrive - The University of South Dakota/Scores/Dorico Backup/Star Quilt
2026-06-21 17:52:03.604 [info] Updating autosave C:/Users/PaulM/OneDrive - The University of South Dakota/Scores/Star Quilt/Star Quilt.dorico -> C:/Users/PaulM/AppData/Roaming/Steinberg/Dorico 6/AutoSave
2026-06-21 17:52:03.902 [info] Closing document session: 1

So your system backup also has no files dated yesterday?

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I did not know there was a difference between the backup folder and autosave folder. Now that I know what I am looking for, I found it in my trash.

I guess Dorico didn’t crash. I wasn’t able to restore its window, so I forced it to close.

Thank you for the help.