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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
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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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
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@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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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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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.
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As @mj pointed out if you are saving to the Cloud not local it does do intermittent saving automatically.
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Make saving file just like autosave but it require a file window up to 1 hours or so.
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This can be achieved with a script for Adobe Bridge and Photoshop. Bridge has to be running and it will "count down" and then trigger Photoshop to save.
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Consider saving to the to creative cloud.
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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.
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
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@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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We need clarification from @AMIR26346783zpnv. He said "clicked on ctrl+s then selected no." I thought he might have been working on a JPEG for hours and doing things that are not supported by JPEG, but we won't know until he tells us, will we?
Jane
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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.
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correction, It's not ctrl+s it's another keybind that closes file which I accidentally clicked.
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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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Indeed, the best answer is: don't type the wrong keys. 🤔
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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)?
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It's latest photoshop version of 2023
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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?
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