# My .fla disapeared

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-fla-disapeared/209313>\
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**Created:** [December 7, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-fla-disapeared/209313 "2006-12-07T17:48:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![citruscomputers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@citruscomputers](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/citruscomputers)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-fla-disapeared/209313/1 "2006-12-07T17:48:17Z")

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This has happend to me in the past before, a .fla gets corrupt or a .fla will randomly disapear. Today was the worst case of it ever, after having the premonition yesterday that my files were gonna go whacky I backed up my main .fla in the same directory. (checkout-backup.fla) While working in checkout.fla today I get a msg saying I cant save it and that it is read only, I say hmm, well I saved not that long ago I’ll just quit flash and re-open. wrong… The file is gone, everything else is there but the .fla I was working with AND the backup which wasn’t even open. This has to be a bad joke because that particular .fla has taken me about 3 weeks to code.

All of my files are stored on my department’s server and I have engineers trying to retrieve the lost file but they said there’s a good chance it is gone. How the hell could this of happend and how can I prevent it in the future…