Had Ps create a panorama, then hit save. Can't find where it saved it to.

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terbs

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Created a pano and hit save. Can’t find it. Where is it?

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March 4, 2023
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Had Ps create a panorama, then hit save. Can't find where it saved it to.

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D Fosse

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I had my own "Photoshop ate my files"-moment just three or four days ago. Reopening files I had been working on, they had suddenly mysteriously "reverted" to a much earlier state, and a full days work seemingly lost.

If I didn't know better, I would have screamed murder.

Digging a bit deeper, of course, the files were all there and fully up to date. They were just in a different folder. Backtracking my moves on that day led me straight to them.

That's what I got for not paying attention. This is a true story, I'm not making it up for rhetorical purposes.

Conrad_C

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You should almost always be able to find out where you saved a file that you just created.

Tip #1:

If the Photoshop document is still open, right-click the document tab and choose Reveal in Finder. If your Mac is not set up to right-click, Ctrl-click there instead. Reveal in Finder switches to the macOS Finder desktop, and opens the folder containing the document you are looking at in Photoshop.

Tip #2:

If you undock a document tab, it becomes a macOS document window. Right-click (or Ctrl-click) the document title bar to reveal the path to the folder where it is saved. Right-clicking the title bar works in floating document windows in almost all macOS applications, including Finder windows.

If the document is not open but you were just looking at it, it should be in the Recent list on the Home screen in Photoshop, or you should be able to choose its name from File > Open Recent. After it opens, you can then use Tip #1 or Tip #2.

If it no longer appears in a recently opened documents list, you can use the search feature in the macOS Finder. Set it up to constrain the search to the file extension PSD (and TIFF and PSB if you think you might have saved your panorama that way). To narrow it down further and find it more quickly, you can also add search criteria such as documents created the last day or last week, or above a certain file size (because panoramas tend to be large files).

In short, using the tools on your Mac, it should actually be difficult to completely lose a file.

NB, colourmanagement

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@Conrad_C nice tips, love the video, I hope this solves the OP's issue.

neil barstow, colourmanagement net - adobe forum volunteer - co-author: 'getting colour right'

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Create another pano, and save it again, but this time take notice of the file location.

Do you know what format it saved as? Search your entire drive for that format, and use date filters if Mac can do that. Otherwise do the search and arrange by date. Your pano will be the newest file with that format.

BTW Do you use the cloud with Adobe apps?