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LionelDieperink
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6 years ago

My Articulate 360 Storyline file simply disappeared

Hi,

I thought I'd post this here in case someone else encounters this issue.

I have been working on an Articulate 360 .story file for the last two weeks on and off, left if for the weekend and went back to open it this morning to find that it had disappeared.  All of the other files and folder were there.  I that perhaps I'd accidently moved the folder, or deleted the file while I was doing some drive housekeeping late last week, but that couldn't be the case - as everything other than the ".story" files were there. I had a few versions saved with suffixes but they were also gone.  

I downloaded a free recovery tool as was able to recover a version so have only lost about 2 hours work.  But, I'm left shaken.  How is it possible that the files in a folder and only the ".story" files could disappear?

I work on and store my projects on a Western Digital 8TB pro external drive which shuttles to work and back with me.

Anyone experience similar or have a way I might avoid this in the future?