Adobe Illustrator problems

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     So, as my normal routines nowadays is like, I was working on a big detailed picture using Illustrator. Because I use about 4 different computers in my day to work on this single picture, I am pretty much required to carry around a flashdrive. Something strange happened today though.

 

     I worked on this image on the 3 previous computers, than got home and begun to work on my fourth.computer. Well, I guess I activated some glitch that caused me to lose all the work I've done earlier that day. I think I might have left the file opened on my computer when I plugged my flashdrive in, causing it to think that was the current one, but I don't understand how that could be when thinking that the flashdrive would have just opened another file. It may have also been caused by the use of older versions of the same program. These are just a few guesses though, as I really don't understand what happened.

 

     For now, I'm too unmotivated to work on this, so I'm going to take a break from it for the day. If someone can tell me if I did something wrong here, it would be much appreciated.

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It might have something to do with the file type.

 

I know .svg's have problems with older/newer versions of AI. Unless it's not a .svg and just a .ai file. I'm no expert, but I know that Illustrator is real finicky with its file types and its versions. Shame about losing the work though.

[Zeal Crown 196]

So far I've only been using .AI files, unless it changed it up on me at some point. Maybe I might have saved it as an .svg without knowing it.

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Check to make sure all 4 computers are running the same version of illustrator, also .ai file transfers can sometimes have problems going from one operating system to another. Are all the computers running the same operating system windows or mac and same version of mac or windows as the others? Also I suggest you back up your work in cloud storage in addition to using the flashdrive that way if something goes wrong again in the future you still have another copy of the save. It sucks to lose hours of work youve done in illustrator like this I know how you feel it can be very discouraging but dont give up. Wish I could help but unless you have another copy of the file, if the file did get erased or become corrupted theres really nothing that can be done and the data is lost but dont let that stop you from doing whatever it was just back up your work on a cloud next time.