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I clicked don't save by accident

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May 9, 2023
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Today I lost hours of work just because little accident while I was painting, clicked on ctrl+s then selected no.

I know there's is no solution for this just to cope with the pain losing hours and hours by software that you consistently paid monthly.

I think there's should be a way out for this, a company of billion dollars should have had in the first place.

So once again please photoshop please do an update regarding this problem.

Thank you

Windows

Correct answer Stephen Marsh

correction, It's not ctrl+s it's another keybind that closes file which I accidentally clicked.

Yes, W (close) and S (save) are close to each other on a QWERTY keyboard.

You can disable or reassign the keyboard shortcut for close or close all (Edit > Keyboard shortcuts).

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Mariam Hovhannesyan

Community Expert

Did you try to change the settings of the file handling?
Windows: Choose Edit > Preferences and choose the desired preference set from the submenu. macOS: Choose Photoshop > Preferences and then choose the desired preference set from the submenu.
And go to the file handling

@mj

Community Expert

Here's the reality.

Every single person on this forum has lost work.

That's the nature of computing.

If we take this to it's logical conclusion, we'd have multiple dialogs that will ask "Are you sure you don't want to save?"

How frustrating that would be.

If it saved despite you saying no, folks would also rightfully upset because there would be tons of untitled files causing clutter on your device.

What do you propose is the solution?

TheDigitalDog

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Today I lost hours of work just because little accident while I was painting, clicked on ctrl+s then selected no.

I know there's is no solution for this just to cope with the pain losing hours and hours by software that you consistently paid monthly.

I think there's should be a way out for this, a company of billion dollars should have had in the first the first place

By @AMIR26346783zpnv

Can you provide the name of any software product that doesn't do what you asked for (no, do not save despite what I just selected)?

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"

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AMIR26346783zpnvAuthor

Participating Frequently

It's latest photoshop version of 2023

jane-e

Community Expert

Today I lost hours of work just because little accident while I was painting, clicked on ctrl+s then selected no.
By @AMIR26346783zpnv

When I am working in a PSD and do CTRL+S, I do not get a dialog asking yes or no — Photoshop simply saves my file. What file format are you working in that you even get the question?

Jane

Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

@jane-e I have a feeling it was when they went to close and it asked if you wanted to save. If you hit "no" the document closes and you lose the work.

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AMIR26346783zpnvAuthor

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It happen when I paint on the file which I haven't saved yet. It just so happen that I clicked ctrl+s by accident.

It's not JPEG it's an untitled_1 fresh new file. I forgot I working on new project, always thought autosaves does everything but not on new file.

correction, It's not ctrl+s it's another keybind that closes file which I accidentally clicked.

@mj

Community Expert

Consider saving to the to creative cloud.

Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

Hi @AMIR26346783zpnv I understand the pain of losing work from a mistake. However, what solution would you propose beyond the confirmation window you already get when you save or close a document? Another window stating "Are you sure?". Not making light but not sure what you are expecting.

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AMIR26346783zpnvAuthor

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Make saving file just like autosave but it require a file window up to 1 hours or so.

Confirmation windows isn't really effective in my opinion, rather than helping it's more like quick time event where one misclick all would be gone gone. And in my case I misclicked ctrl+save and and my pen tablet is on screen making paint strokes not knowing I just clicked "bye bye don't save".

A little update just as autosave like that I think would be very helpful!

Hi @AMIR26346783zpnv I understand the pain of losing work from a mistake. However, what solution would you propose beyond the confirmation window you already get when you save or close a document? Another window stating "Are you sure?". Not making light but not sure what you are expecting.

By @Kevin Stohlmeyer

Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

As @@mj pointed out if you are saving to the Cloud not local it does do intermittent saving automatically.

davescm

Community Expert

I always advise saving as you go, rather than at the end of hours of work, and if your work is really important use incremental filenames i.e MyFile001.psd, MyFile002.psd.....etc. That way you are protected against your own errors, we all make them, as well as a crash. You can always delete the increments later.

Dave

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

@davescm wrote:

...and if your work is really important use incremental filenames i.e MyFile001.psd, MyFile002.psd.....etc.

Dave

Just adding to this, there are various scripts to automatically create sequential/incremental saves.

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