sorry about the multi post, this forum does weird things for me.
Update: I just retrieved the last autosave in my time machine backup... however all of the plugins were completely messed up. Some of the EQs just erased my settings, some of the EQs had the settings from other instruments? whattttt? My banjo has the EQ settings from my cello. wtf is happening. My compressor settings got erased. I was double safe with both the auto save feature and time machine, yet it still lost all my plugin settings, why?