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January 18, 2022
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All of my Photoshop autosave folders are empty on MAc

  • January 18, 2022
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I just had my computer die after about a half hour of work, and then when I redid the work a second time, photoshop hosed up and I had to do a hard restart of my computer. I wanted to recover the file, since I hadn't had a chance to save and didn't want to do the work a third time, but I cannot find the recovery files anywhere. I searched all of the autorecover folders I could find, both the hard drive and my external, all the previous versions, nothing. Every single folder is empty. I've already saved the file twice yesterday, and it had enough time to save in the background today (I have autosve on for every 10 minutes). The scratch disk is set to the external hardrive, but there's for some reason no record of there being a Photoshop CC 2022 on that drive, only 2019-2021, so no 2022 AutoRecover folder. Is there some other secret location I don't know about? I did all of the "fixes" I could find online and from old discussions on here to no avail.

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Stephen Marsh
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Community Expert
January 18, 2022

I made a script to open the folder, but the file has to be previously saved before the auto recovery file is created, and Photoshop has to have saved the recovery file... so a couple of ifs...

 

/* Open Photoshop Auto Recovery Folder - Universal */

#target photoshop

app.bringToFront();

openAutoRecoverDir();

function openAutoRecoverDir() {
    var os = $.os.toLowerCase().indexOf('mac') >= 0 ? "mac" : "windows";
    if (os === 'mac') {
        // alert("It's a Mac!");

        autoRecoverMac();

        function autoRecoverMac() {
            var appPath = app.path.fsName.replace(/^\/.+\//, '');
            var autoRecoverDirMac = '~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/' + appPath + '/AutoRecover';
            var autoRecoverDirMacOpen = Folder(autoRecoverDirMac);
            autoRecoverDirMacOpen.execute();
        }

    } else {
        // alert("It's Windows!");

        autoRecoverWin();

        function autoRecoverWin() {
            var appPath = app.path.fsName.replace(/^.+\\/, '');
            var autoRecoverDirWin = '~/appData/Roaming/Adobe/' + appPath + '/AutoRecover';
            var autoRecoverDirWinOpen = Folder(autoRecoverDirWin);
            autoRecoverDirWinOpen.execute();
        }

    }
}

 

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html