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How to Recover a File Accidentally Saved Over in Photoshop?

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hi, I have a serious problem here... I saved a file as PSD ,then delet all the layers and was doing another stuff on the sheet( the reason I did this is because I wanted the same page size and was lazy to enter the size:| )after I finished, I saved the file to another name. but, I found that the first file that i saved manually , is replaced by an autosave file on my work procedure on the second file. I know this happend because I was working with the sama names, but is there any way that I can restore my first file that I saved to what I manually saved?:( I didnt know this whould happend... adobe shouldnt autosave on the manually saved files...:( pleaseeeeeeeeee help me, what can I do here?

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Sorry to bring up an old thread but a Google search for this same problem kept bringing me here. Not sure if this is a new feature or not but I accidentally did the same thing. I opened up a file to use the layout, re-did a whole new ad and then in a hurry, two hours later I pushed the (command+s) button and to my dismay, saved over the entire original file. Then I opened up the history panel from the windows drop down and noticed at the top of the history panel there was a version of the file, as it was, when I opened it. So I saved the file as a different name, crossed my fingers and pushed the little button at the top of the history actions next to the thumbnail of the original file. And BAM! it restored the file back to it's original glory it was in, right when I opened it. Re-saved the original and was able to keep both files. Yay, win for me!

Stephen Marsh

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There are auto incremental numbering or date/time filename saving scripts that can be used to facilitate version/backup file creation when saving locally.

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Alex_Abdo3089

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Just had a minor scare myself - in case anyone out there is reading this, on 2020 provided you haven’t closed the program, just the tab, you can reopen the problem file, select “Revert” from the dropdown File menu and it should bring back your most recent edit automatically.

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danielb94023111

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I can't believe the software is this expensive and they don't have a way to fix such a common and easily done mistake. It's unreal that something is this expensive and so awful to use.

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jane-e

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I can't believe the software is this expensive and they don't have a way to fix such a common and easily done mistake.
By @danielb94023111

This has been the way all software works since the early days of computing. However, Adobe did come up with a fix a few years back. Save your images to the Adobe Cloud as PSDCs (Photoshop Document Cloud), and you will automatically get versions that you can revert to.

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default2yfqh1ifr6ke

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This might help someone.

I recently saved over a Photoshop .psd file by mistake but was able to recover it in Windows 10, even after closing it. I opened windows file manager and navigated to where the file was saved. Then right clicked on the new saved version and selected "Version history". I picked a version from before I had saved over it. Then, I clicked on the three vertical dots to the right and selected the "Restore" option.

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default2yfqh1ifr6ke

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Kilo's solution didn't work for me, as the only things shown were changes I had made to document.

Should also mention that while doing the above I had the new version of the file open in Photoshop. And once I did the recovery of the overwritten version, I changed the file name in Windows file manager. Then went back to Photoshop and resaved the open new version.

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Stellar_Enchantment0D45

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Add me to the list, two years later! I was shocked to find the previously saved version. THANK YOU!

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quodavid

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i closed and saved the file weeks ago with flattened layers, and have no backup method in my imac, is possible to recover the previous version?

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jane-e

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quodavid wrote
i closed and saved the file weeks ago with flattened layers, and have no backup method in my imac, is possible to recover the previous version?

If you have Time Machine, you can use that to go back to an earlier version. Otherwise, no.

~ Jane

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Gyvulius

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You actualy saved me 4 hours of work. THank you!

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MikeDesigner

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Thank you for this solution.

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kiet le26

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You are an amazing person! thank you!

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kiloj757Correct answer

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Sorry to bring up an old thread but a Google search for this same problem kept bringing me here. Not sure if this is a new feature or not but I accidentally did the same thing. I opened up a file to use the layout, re-did a whole new ad and then in a hurry, two hours later I pushed the (command+s) button and to my dismay, saved over the entire original file. Then I opened up the history panel from the windows drop down and noticed at the top of the history panel there was a version of the file, as it was, when I opened it. So I saved the file as a different name, crossed my fingers and pushed the little button at the top of the history actions next to the thumbnail of the original file. And BAM! it restored the file back to it's original glory it was in, right when I opened it. Re-saved the original and was able to keep both files. Yay, win for me!

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JdoubleU

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Lifesaver! Thank you Kilo!

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