https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/how-to-recover-unsaved-photoshop-file/td-p/7586044/page/2
is locked, so I'll start a new discussion, although it has nothing to do with recovering from user errors.
There are some surprisingly unknown facts about the location of PSAutoRecover. If the top of the scratch disk settings is not the startup disk, a PSAutoRecover folder will be created on the top scratch disk.
As you can see, the user's Application Support does not have PSAutoRecover.
The PSAutoRecover Folder is located on VM Disk EX and is updated every 10 minutes as set by me.
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