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Hi everyone,
I’ve been searching google for this for a while but I can’t find an answer.
Ok, so I’m working with a large PSD (100+ layers, over 170MB). I wan’t to preview it as a PDF. I click Save As … and I make a new file on the desktop. I minimize Photoshop, go to desktop and open the PDF. Ok everything’s ok. I go back to photoshop (just maximize it). I work work work …. Ctrl+S every once in a while … and I suddenly realize that the file I’m working on has changed its name from project2.psd to project2.pdf (I see this in the top bar of the window). I minimize photoshop, go to the folder where my psd file is stored and I check it for weight -> it’s now 24MB instead of 170MB. Ok, now I’m stressed and I go crazy. Istead of going back in history I decide to Overwrite my original project2 (which is now a pdf as the windows explorere shows … [oh yeah, and the pdf I’ve created on the desktop is still there as a totally separate file]) with the project I have currently opened in photoshop (I still have layers in the layers pallete and everything, it’s just the photoshop shows the name of the file in the top bar "project2.pdf"). I do that. Now I close all the projects opened in photoshop (I guess that’s the moment I really screwed up) – though I don’t close the program itself if that matters at all – and I reopen my project2.psd.
Yes, it opens as a PSD ….. but it’s flatten. No layers. God I’m so angry with myself now.
I have no idea why after creating a new pdf file on the desktop the whole project I was still working with turned into a PDF file.
Is there any home-made cheap solution to this? I wan’t to get my 170MB 100+ layers file Does Vista store some temp files anywhere? I suppose it won’t be there.
Sorry for being so emotional about all this but I’m really screwed if I don’t get my original file back.
PS. I’ve found a file called Photoshop Temp631890 in the Temp directory. Can’t open it with PS. Is there anything I can do with it?
Thank you in advance,
Auror
I’ve been searching google for this for a while but I can’t find an answer.
Ok, so I’m working with a large PSD (100+ layers, over 170MB). I wan’t to preview it as a PDF. I click Save As … and I make a new file on the desktop. I minimize Photoshop, go to desktop and open the PDF. Ok everything’s ok. I go back to photoshop (just maximize it). I work work work …. Ctrl+S every once in a while … and I suddenly realize that the file I’m working on has changed its name from project2.psd to project2.pdf (I see this in the top bar of the window). I minimize photoshop, go to the folder where my psd file is stored and I check it for weight -> it’s now 24MB instead of 170MB. Ok, now I’m stressed and I go crazy. Istead of going back in history I decide to Overwrite my original project2 (which is now a pdf as the windows explorere shows … [oh yeah, and the pdf I’ve created on the desktop is still there as a totally separate file]) with the project I have currently opened in photoshop (I still have layers in the layers pallete and everything, it’s just the photoshop shows the name of the file in the top bar "project2.pdf"). I do that. Now I close all the projects opened in photoshop (I guess that’s the moment I really screwed up) – though I don’t close the program itself if that matters at all – and I reopen my project2.psd.
Yes, it opens as a PSD ….. but it’s flatten. No layers. God I’m so angry with myself now.
I have no idea why after creating a new pdf file on the desktop the whole project I was still working with turned into a PDF file.
Is there any home-made cheap solution to this? I wan’t to get my 170MB 100+ layers file Does Vista store some temp files anywhere? I suppose it won’t be there.
Sorry for being so emotional about all this but I’m really screwed if I don’t get my original file back.
PS. I’ve found a file called Photoshop Temp631890 in the Temp directory. Can’t open it with PS. Is there anything I can do with it?
Thank you in advance,
Auror
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