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November 8, 2021
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Missing Layers

  • November 8, 2021
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I was working on a document with a lot of layers and I saved my file, copied and collapsed all layers to a new layer, moved that object around the artboard, and I thought I saved my file again with all the  other layers still there without accidentally deleteing anything. I closed the document and later when I reopened it, all the layers were gone except my layer that I had copied and collapsed all the other layers on to. I did not back up the document to cloud so I can't recover an earlier version of the psd file. Is there a way to recover those lost layers or the previous psd file?

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Participant
November 8, 2021

I think that when I saved the second time I may have accidentally saved as a photoshop image

Theresa J
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Community Expert
November 8, 2021

Saving the file as a Photoshop image is what you want to do. Photoshop files can have layers. Saving as a jpeg would be bad because a jpeg can't have layers. Unfortunately if you deleted, or flattened layers before closing and saving the file to a hard drive, there is no way to get them back.