It is essential to note that the steps listed below to recover your project can be applied in the case where you mistakenly closed your own project without accepting to save your recent changes, or when your computer restarts without your consent. Note: This article assumes that you have a licensed FL Studio product, and not a hacked version, or one that you did not obtain legally via illegal torrents, cracked, etc. Check the screenshot below if you are struggling to locate it. Simply right-click on the backup file you want and select Open to verify it and continue working on it. Yes, they are created automatically and available when you need them; but they are also auto-deleted to regularly make way for new backups, hence the limited number of versions available. How often backups are created by the program depends on your configurations. To determine the interval between the creation of new backup files in the background while you are advancing in your projects, go to File Settings. In the Autosave field, the following options are available. It will only remind you via a brief message under the menu, but the message is hardly noticeable if your attention is fully on your patterns and plugins if you catch my drift. This option is obviously not recommended, as it means you will need to hit CTRL + S regularly in order to overwrite your project with your new changes. While frequently saving manually is a good practice to avoid loss of work, the downside here is that in case FL Studio crashes, stops responding or closes unexpectedly, none of your unsaved changes will be automatically saved, and your Backup folder will always be empty. Rarely every 15min : This option will only create backups of your project every 15 minutes. Although this is better than nothing, the auto-saving intervals are arguably way too extended. A lot of changes can be made in that time; losing 10 minutes of changes can already be a nightmare so imagine what 14min of lost work can do to you! Even if FL Studio crashes, you know you only lost some 4-5 minutes of work, which is easier to recover. Not only will you be secured with frequent backups, but FL Studio will also auto-save your project before operations that put a lot of pressure on the program. Drop whatever questions or message you have on my YouTube video and leave your comments below. Backups are actually also created on manual save, but perhaps if you want greater intervals between your automatic backups, you can change the auto-saving time to 15min or 10min. The downside here is that, in the event you forget to save in between these 15-10min intervals, and the application crashes, you risk losing a lot of progress. I had been working on a project for about 30-45 minutes. I then exported it as a wav, and closed FL studio without saving the project as an flp. Even though I had autosaves on every 10 minutes, either no backups were created, or they all got deleted. Even though you might have Autosave set to 10min, it is always best to save your project as an FLP, at least once, at the start of the project. This way, FL Studio can continue the automatic backups in case you forget to manually save again. Not saving your project at all may prevent FL Studio from creating any backup copy for you.
