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How to Recover a File Accidentally Saved Over in Photoshop?

New Here ,
Dec 30, 2012 Dec 30, 2012

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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Community Beginner , Feb 19, 2015 Feb 19, 2015

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,

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Dec 13, 2022 Dec 13, 2022

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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Jan 06, 2024 Jan 06, 2024
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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.

 

Jane

 

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