[Undelete and Recover a Photoshop File] How to Recover a Photoshop File

How to Recover an Unsaved/Deleted Photoshop File

How to recover unsaved Photoshop files that were lost due to accidental closure or program crash of Photoshop? How to retrieve deleted, formatted, or lost Photoshop files from hard drive? On this page, we will discuss how to recover Photoshop files from both aspects. If you are still bothered by these issues, come and find the solutions now.

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Solution 1: How to Recover Deleted or Lost PSD Files

If you're looking to recover deleted or lost PSD files from your computer or external hard drive, you shouldn't miss the Data Recovery Wizard tool. This tool offers a user-friendly graphical interface that allows you to easily recover deleted files with just a few clicks.

Step 1: Choose a location and start scanning.

Launch the Data Recovery Wizard, and hover the mouse over the partition/drive where the deleted files were stored. Click on “Scan” to look for the lost files.

Step 2. Select the files to restore

Once the scan is finished, select the deleted files you want to recover. You can click on the Filter button to display only the file types that you need. If you remember the name of the file, you can also search for it in the “Search for files or folders” box – this is the quickest way to find your target file.

Step 3: Preview and recover the deleted files

Preview the recoverable files, then select the ones you want to restore and click “Recover” to save them to a new location, not the disk where the data was lost.

If Photoshop closes unexpectedly due to user error or a software crash, you may lose an unsaved PSD file. Photoshop CS5 and later automatically reopens the previous PSD file so you can continue editing. However, if the cache file becomes damaged or is replaced, the document might not open. In this case, you can perform a Photoshop recovery of an unsaved file.

There are two methods you can use to recover an unsaved Photoshop file. Do not trust any third-party data recovery software that claims it can retrieve unsaved files. All data recovery tools available can only restore files that were previously saved and then deleted from a local storage device.

Solution 2: Recover Unsaved Photoshop File from Auto-Save

To recover a Photoshop file from the Auto-Recover folder, you need to have the Auto-Save feature turned on. Check that this option is enabled in Photoshop CC or CS6.

Launch Adobe Photoshop CC > Click on the "Edit" tab > Select "Preferences" > Go to "File Handling" > Check if "Automatically Save Recovery Information Every * Minutes" is checked, as shown in the image below.

If you have Auto Save turned on, you can recover an unsaved PSD or PSB file from a Photoshop backup file in the Auto-Recover folder after a software crash/freeze or unexpected shutdown.

Photoshop recovery path: C:/Users/UserName/AppData/Roaming/Adobe Photoshop (CS6 or CC)/AutoRecover

Solution 3: Recover unsaved Photoshop file from Temp folder

When you work on a Photoshop file, the app uses a “Temp” folder to save your progress. These files act as a backup in case Photoshop crashes. You can recover a Photoshop file by following these steps.

Step 1: Go to C:/Users/Username/AppData/Local/Temp/.

Step 2. Open the Temp folder and look for the PSD or PSB file.

Step 3. Rename the extension from .tmp to .psd/.psb/.pbb to recover your Photoshop file.

If you accidentally closed the application without saving, here's a quick way to recover unsaved Photoshop files on Mac.