Help me. This is my final college assignment, and it can't be opened "failed open to document"

[ateliernab]

Here is the same explanation by Colin back in 2019 after they moved some things around.

Auto Save and backup file refresher

The location used for auto save files has changed over the years, and in SketchUp 2019 and later it is in yet another new place. The most recent change was because the previous location was in a folder that your operating system might clear out overnight, which wouldn’t be a good thing. There’s also some confusion about what an auto save file is, and what a backup file is. Below is a description of each, but first, a note about file paths… File Paths When posting a file path for Windows you m…

and here the official help page

https://help.sketchup.com/en/sketchup/setting-software-and-file-preferences

so yes, here we’re not talking about a crash, we’re talking about file corruption, auto save won’t help, only skb. until it can’t.

Whatever you do, people, don’t forget to manually save your work from time to time.