Your file is hosed. The scratch file can’t be recovered into a usable file.
This question comes up periodically, and the answer is no – your data is lost. The only way to recover it would be to do a forensic style analysis of the swap file, and that would probably take more hours and money than it’s worth to you.
With systems as stable as they are, it’s easy to wait too long between saves. Almost all of us have done this.
Photoshop should have an option to auto-save. It may make a difference if you post a note to adobe.photoshop.featurerequest and ask for this feature. Mention your recent loss of work.
Save often. You MUST get into that habit.
IMHO an autosave function would cause more problems than it’s worth. If that feature existed in Photoshop I would hope it could be turned off.
A better idea might be a "reminder" to Save that would pop up now and again. That can be scripted into the system now. But hey, losing everything should be reminder enough.
A better idea might be a "reminder" to Save that would pop up now and again.
please not another popup! how about a yellow flashy thingy in the frame surrounding the image telling you you’ve reached a (user definable) period of time without saving?
That would be okay, but easily ignored I bet. Not sure what the objection to "another popup". Do you get a lot of popups in Photoshop?
I have a friend who has dry eyes. The problem is, he doesn’t blink often enough. Our Mactech guy scripted a sticky that said BLINK! to pop up for a fraction of a second every 15 minutes. It worked.
I’m sure something like that would be possible in Windows.
what if you’re in the middle of making complex selections that get ruined every (5, 10, 15?) minutes every time a box pops up?
Well that’s what the reminder is for…
I don’t think the popup would necessarily ruin a selection. Why should it?
But, whatever. Some kind of reminder would probably be a good idea.
If you buy a professional program you have to use it like a professional.
End of story!
If you buy a professional program you have to use it like a professional. End of story!
In my day, Onions were for belts! And if we were starving we wouldn’t eat em or our pants would fall down! End of st-…..zzzZZZZZXXXXTTT!
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"If you buy a professional program you have to use it like a professional."
Is that a law?
No it’s good advice though. 🙂
so were onion belts laddie, so were onion belts!
Seriously: InDesign has this already – automatic recovery after a crash. Isn’t that correct, Bob?
I don’t know how it works, I haven’t seen it in action (yet…) I suppose it keeps a "shadow copy" going.
Correct, but ID doesn’t deal with the types of files that Photoshop does.
Bob
Look at the size of an average InDesign file and the size of an average PS file and its history states!
Josh,
Someone had posted a link to such a program, as Mike mentioned. It was "supposed" to be able to dissect and restore from PS TMP files. I do not have a link, and also do not know the $, nor how effective this might be. I’d do a search of this forum, trying words like PS TMP, and the like. It was not THAT long ago. Again, have no experience with it (or any other TMP reclamation apps.). Might be worth a try.
All other comments on doing various forms of Save/Save_As are good ones. I’d incorporate those into my workflow, if you have not already.
You might want to look at Stellar-Phoenix for file recovery. Depending on where you were, when the crash happened, you might be able to locate your older image file on your HDD – or, you might not. Stellar-Phoenix had a trial. Seems that it would scan your HDD, but only the paid version would recover, if found. See if it finds something of use. I’d also do this, before anything else overwrites that/those sector(s) on your HDD . Probably not going to help, but you never know. Just to be clear, Stellar-Phoenix is a data recovery tool and is NOT a PS TMP file extractor.
Sorry about your misfortune and good luck,
Hunt