How to recover unsaved Photoshop file

Here we have a whole thread of confusion because the marked "correct answer" was in fact incorrect. I unmarked it.

So again (as some here have tried to point out): Autorecovery is crash recovery. It is not user error recovery.

If the file has been closed without saving, it is deleted from the autorecovery folder. If Photoshop is closed down, the entire content of the autorecovery folder is deleted.

There is never any reason to find and open the autorecovery folder. There won't be anything there, unless Photoshop crashed. In that case, the files that were open before the crash will open automatically the next time Photoshop launches.

In other words - either it will open automatically, or it won't be there at all.

EDIT: just did something I have never done before: I marked my own answer as correct. Because it is.