Just quickly

[PlaceYourBetts]

mid render and after a crash?

This might be more serious than I am suggesting.

Good luck. Sorry I am not of more help.

Take a look here:

Flame 2026 crashed lost project

Hello @Deepakpais! Sorry to hear you have got into trouble with Flame 2026. As we all know, the default locations for the project data and cache are now defaulting on the system drive since you are now free to define this location at your will. System drive is a starting point and one might prefer to set the Cache location to an external drive since cache to avoid such issue. In you case, you have probably rendered an effect and filled the drive, causing the metadata of the project to not be co…