How to use "Auto Recovery" in Storyline 2.0

Hi Mac,

I'm sorry to hear about the crash and missing files. In regards to the auto recovery files, you can try looking from them on your system as the file should be created for the project under the /AppData/Roaming/Articulate/Storyline path. This auto recover file is named using a format like this: 

<name of the file without .story extension><creation time stamp of the file>.tmp 

So if you were working on a file called 
"my_sample.story" 

The auto recovery name might look like 
"my_sample635502380729253410.tmp" 

As long as the file name of the project doesn't change, it would keep overwriting the same recovery .tmp file over and over again. So if you have a single project open for a long time, it should only result in a simple .tmp file that keeps getting overwritten with the latest auto recovery data. 

When the project is closed (either by opening a new project or closing Storyline), then any .tmp file that was created for auto recovery purposes should be deleted. If Storyline crashed or there was an error trying to delete the .tmp file, then obviously it would stick around. 

You can look for this file in the directory mentioned above, create a copy of it just to be safe, then rename the extension from .tmp to .story. Open it in Storyline after doing that. 

As David mentioned, you may also want to look at conducting the repair as detailed here.