I can see my continued work in the .psd thumbnail but not in the opened project

[heingertenbach]

I have been working on a pixel art scene in photoshop for quite a while but it seems that I saved the wrong file and didn't save the file that I was actually working on, I allways save a new file and never overwrite something, so now I have a file of the wrong thing that I saved, and an old version of the correct thing. But what confuses me is that the thumbnail of the old file is correct, but when I open it it is old? I have been searching for autosaved files but there are none even though it is turned on?

[Bojan Živković]

Thumbnail where, in Explorer, Bridge or somewhere else? Perhaps you can purge cache and rebuild thumbnail? You have what you open in Photoshop, wrong thumbnail will not restore that version anyway.

[heingertenbach]

Thank you for the quick reply. The smaller picture is my thumbnail, that is the correct version, and the larger one is what is opened from the file. All of this is in file browser.

Is there a way to recover that version?

[PECourtejoie]

Hallo, can we see the contents of your layers panel?
If you are on a Mac, do you have a time machine setup?

[JJMack]

Photoshop does not have and Auto file save feature.. You need to save the files you want available.

Auto recovery File only exist for open documents the have been change for the longer then auto-save recovery configured time period.  They are left behind if Photoshop or your system crashes so you can recover most of your work should Photoshop or machine crash.   When you save and close document auto recovery files are deleted.

If you use file history or time machine  on you OS you may be able to get old version of saved files.  Photoshop only auto creates recovery files  it does not have an auto save file feature.  You need to save the file you want to have.

[heingertenbach]

Thanks, good yo know from now on. It's quite sad that I lost that then. It's just weird how the thumbnail is correct /: