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Charlie D's picture
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PhotoShop Emergency Question

A co-worker here was working in a 20+ layer high res pshop file, accidently flattened all but two layers, and closed the file, is there anyway he can retrieve the original 20+ layer, for instance does photoshop cache any of that history or is his file gone? Thanks.

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thornysarus's picture
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Once it's saved and closed, it's gone. Happens to the best of us, I'm afraid.

My condolences.

Terrell Thornhill

e-zign Design Group

Charlie D's picture
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oh well thanks for the reply...like i said it was a co-worker, thankfully not a piece i was working on!

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sykobihari's picture
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Maybe a "system restore" could help...

PIMPTRIX's picture
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sykobihari wrote:

Maybe a "system restore" could help...

Or that could cause even more hell! ;)

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JimD's picture
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System restore will serve only to erase everything on your hard drive and put back on the apps included with the OS

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Ivan's picture

is there an equivalent to OS9 norton unerease for OX?

Anonymous's picture

yep... Norton System Works 3.0 works on OS X... and have Unerase utility... we buy it just for precaution, but in practice just for one time we used it...... and sadly don't work! (the unerase utility)...

carlosmh's picture
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sorry folks... the message above is mine....

bteverybody's picture
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I don't see where an undelete utility would do any good. It just helps recover deleted files, not lost time. Perhaps this could lead to a "happy accident" that works out better than the 20+ layered file.

Billwhit's picture
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In the future, use layer comps. They will save a state in time with all the layer intact even if you flatten an save the file.

digilee's picture
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<cough>back-up</cough>

Always work on a copy of the original.

And remember that hindsight is always best when used pre-job!

take it there > http://www.rickler.com

Craig's picture
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In response to the effectiveness of Norton UnErase on OSX, it depends on the integrity of the file that is being retrieved. If the file has been partially or fully overwritten by other files, then naturally, Norton won't let you unerase it. Don't expect it to recover something that was deleted a few days ago, just before you did a bunch of work and file-savin'. I've had it save my butt on a couple of occasions.

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