You may still be able to recover it. Try looking for a deleted file with the original file name. Many apps don't actually overwrite the file when you save instead what they do is they write a new file to a temp filename, and when the temp file is completely written, delete the original file and rename the temp file to the original filename. If PS behaves like this then you should be able to undelete the file quite easily with one of a zillion recovery tools that exist.
Many apps use this methodology as "insurance" to protect the original file from corruption should something "happen" while saving. I think PS works this way because i've seen temp files show up when saving large files. Give it a shot you may be able to recover your layered file after all Rgds Patrick On 7/7/06, David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A note of caution when saving your files in Photoshop... be careful > if you use the "save as a copy" option when you're used to just > saving your file under a different name. > > Yesterday I saved a file after preparing it for printing, and I'd > used "save as a copy" to save it to another location. > > When I quit Photoshop after printing the file, I got the usual "do > you want to save your changes?" dialog, to which I instinctively > chose "yes"... uhh, "no"... nooooooooo! > > In a few moments, my nice 200Mb layered PSD was overwritten by a 50Mb > resized, flattened, processed-for-printing version. After I stopped > swearing I realised it's not so bad, maybe half an hour added to my > next batch of scanning & processing. But boy did I feel dumb... at > least it wasn't medium format. > > Now excuse me while I reminisce about the versioning filesystem of > VMS... while also thinking about how far behind my photo backups are. > > - Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Regards Patrick Genovese -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
