Adobe PhotoShop is an essential tool for graphic designers and amateurs to make creative works. It enables users to create a PSD file that preserves all PhotoShop features – layers, effects, masks and more – for safe keeping or further editing. Unfortunately, sometimes, people have to face the loss of PhotoShop files for various reasons, from accidentally detection to program or system crash.

Instead of recreating a new project, you probably hope to get the original file back. So, is it possible to recover PhotoShop files? The answer is YES! Here, we introduce a set of working solutions to recover PSD files that are lost in different situations.

It's common to remove or delete unnecessary big-sized PhotoShop files from hard drive to free up space. And accidental deletion happens.

It is an easy task to recover PhotoShop files that are temporarily removed to Recycle Bin. Open Recycle Bin on your desktop. Right-click your wanted files and select Restore. A second later, you can get the deleted PSD file back in its original location.

However, if you have emptied the Recycle Bin or used Shift+Delete to get rid of files permanently, data recovery software is the best choice to recover PhotoShop files. iTop Data Recovery boasts its powerful ability to restore any data from storage devices on Windows. Thanks to advanced algorithm, it can recover PhotoShop PSD files at a super-fast speed and high success rate.

       

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It is a beginner-friendly program with a straightforward interface. Just in a few of clicks, you can get the lost files back.

Step 1. Download and install iTop Data Recovery on your PC. It is fully compatible with Windows 11, 10, 8 and 7.

Step 2. Launch the data recovery software.

• Select Scan Location (local disk or external device where you delete PhotoShop files from.

• Then, select File Types. It is suggested to check Photos, Documents and Others.

• Now, click Scan button. You can also turn on Deep Scan to find out hidden files.

Step 3. All deleted files are listed with recoverability. You can successfully recover a PhotoShop file if it is marked as "Excellent" of recoverability. And the file is hardly to be restored if "Poor" is shown. Now, select files and click Recover.

As a professional data recovery tool, iTop Data Recovery gives full support of various devices and file formats. It can not only help recover formatted hard drive, SD card, USB or the like, but enables you to recover deleted video files, audio files, email files, Office files and more with ease.

Recover PhotoShop Files with Autosave

PhotoShop offers the autosave feature to save current changes and reduce the risk of data loss caused by application crash, freeze or other errors. Generally, autosave feature is turned on in PhotoShop, but you’d better check whether the feature is actually activated.

Launch PhotoShop and go to Edit > Preferences > File Handling. You can get the option: Automatically Save Recovery Information Every: 5 Minutes, 10 Minutes, 15 Minutes, 30 Minutes or 1 hour. You can change the time interval or keep it origin.

After making sure that PhotoShop autosave is available, you can simply recover unsaved PhotoShop files from AutoRecover folder in C drive:

C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop\AutoRecover

Notice: You can't get the unsaved file back if autosave feature is not enabled at the beginning.

Recover PhotoShop Files from Temp Folder

PhotoShop will automatically create a Temp folder to save temporary file of your project. Follow the steps to restore unsaved PhotoShop files from Temp folder.

Step 1. Open the folder User\YourUserName\Local Settings\Temp

Step 2. Search for files which include PhotoShop in names.

Step 3. Check them one by one to find out the exact file(s) you want and save it to another folder for further editing or using.

Recover PhotoShop Files from Recent Files

Besides above two features for file recovery, PhotoShop offers a list of recent files that allows you to access files you forget to save or lost for unexpected errors.

Open PhotoShop. Go to File > Open Recent and now you can get a drop-down list of all recent files. Now, open the needed one to recover the unsaved PSD file.

Notice: It is not working if you want to get a PSD file that hasn't worked on for several days or longer back.

Also Read: How to Recover Unsaved Word Documents >>

When you encounter system crash when working on a project, you can check AutoRecover folder and Recent Files at first to find out your lost files. However, if your files have been corrupted, try to recover PSD files from previous version with File History in Windows that is used to back up and restore your pictures, documents, videos, songs and desktop folders. It helps recover Windows deleted files, lost or damaged data. If you have set up an external or network drive for File History to back up your files, follow the steps to recover PhotoShop files.

Step 1. Open File History and search for the PhotoShop file you want to restore in search box. You can use left and right arrows to view different versions of the file.

Step 2. Select the file click Restore button to recover PhotoShop file to its original location. If you want to restore the file to another location, right click the Restore button, select Restore To, and choose a new destination.

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About how to recover PhotoShop files, here’re different workable solutions according different cases. If you are trying to recover deleted, formatted or lost PSD files, iTop Data Recovery is undoubtedly a good helper. It offers easy and fast data recovery empowering you to retrieve any data from hard drive or other storage devices hassle-free. With high success rate, you can effortlessly get lost PhotoShop files back.

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