Photoshop .psd file completely black??!

melviso

I just recently saved a .psd file of a texture I was working on that had a good number of layers as I was closing Photoshop, after which I shut down Windows. I am not sure if the file saved completely before the shut down.
 I later open it and all the layers are gone and only a black background layer showing. Using bridge, the preview is completely black.
I have tried the right click, restore previous version, no points to restore. I am guessing the file is now corrupt. Any way to fix it or it's as good as gone?

Eric Chadwick

Sounds like it's gone. You should use an incremental backup system, I've been saved many times by mine, when a file is suddenly corrupted. In fact, just yesterday, with a Max file. Saved a lot of rework!

melviso

I had the auto save feature on in Photoshop CS6. I think I did a disk cleanup earlier in the day hence my auto-recover folder was empty when I tried to recover the back up file. Better approach would be to have 2 backup files and manually save them out each time to avoid issues.

Learnt my lesson. Thanks Eric.

Eric Chadwick

Autosave only saves temp files for crash recovery. These are purged when exiting normally.

I wish they had an autobackup function of cycling files, but can see why they did it this way.

The system I use is a global live backup for all files, using Crashplan, which backs up incremental versions to both a local drive and to their cloud server.

So once it's setup I don't have to do anything or change my workflow.

melviso

Okay, cool. Thanks for the suggestion, mate