Hi guys!!!

I need a miracle and if anyone can help I would be in debt forever and a day!

ok.. this is what happened... yesterday while I was working on photoshop I had a power failure and when I opened the file again it was empty!!!!

the file is still there, 1.4GB.. I can see it in the thumbnail when I click to open it but it opens blank .. a 1MB file only with a black background.... all layers gone.. everything gone...

It doesn´t say it's corrupted or anything..

can anyone help pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease....

HUgs

ILona

I don't know. Have you tried this?

Open photoshop / files / Open recent/ and choose the file

yup, ilona.. open photoshop/file/open... don't open it thru recent..it may not read it..

I tried all the above... it's weird.. it's like it became a ghost file... I opened it in another computer.. same thing...

it gives me no message at all... it just opens a blank file with nothing in it.. and I CAN SEE IT! lol.. it's driving me crazy.... I hate computers!

The thumbnail you are seeing maybe a cached thumbnail from your previous session.

Did you try "placing" the corrupt psd into a new one?

You open a new file with same size or larger and from the file menu choose "place".

You may be able to open the file with any other program that read's psd files, however, they may skip any corrupt layers and load only some of them.

Finally, some psd repair tools can be found online, but I don't know how good they are, and what the limitations of a trial version may be.

Hi msg24_7 ... I tried a recover pligin from CS2... it didn´t work.. and also tried to place the file as you said and it places that black background that is opening now...

I wonder if there's any way I can recover the file from the temp file.. it's still there almost 7GB  but I don't know how to do it. The file is there... the temp is there and it opens nothing... just a black background 'MB.. it makes no sense!!!!

did you try renaming the temp file to .psd?
Maybe it works... who knows with computer files :-) 

I did hehe... I am really trying everything by now... fox hole prayers, talking to the muses, file recovery dance, nothing works... I got Gremlins inside my computer!!!!

looks like the final solution is the "I'll redo it from scratch-chant" and incremental saves to trick the gremlins ;-)

I already started..... just a month's work lost.. what the hell!!!!

I think I will go shoot myself now LOL

I really don´t know what the hell I am laughing about!!!!! I really really reeeeally hate computers!

Quote - I already started..... just a month's work lost.. what the hell!!!!

 

I think I will go shoot myself now LOL

I really don´t know what the hell I am laughing about!!!!! I really really reeeeally hate computers!

I'd say, it really depends on the kind of laughter... happy laugh... manic laugh... sobbing laugh... 

and maybe, you're not laughing about anything but at your computer...  :-)

This is a long shot but, does it still exist in the history cache?. Lou.

Hi Lou!!! ok.. how can I find it? where on earth is the history cache on W7?

I can see the temp file..

it wouldn't be a W7 cache.. PS uses a cache to store a history of what you did while working on something.. it's possible that, with the sudden shutdown, the info MAY not have been erased, as it normally would.. you would have to open the "black" file, then use history and see if the operations you did are still there. also.. one other thing.. do you have auto-save enabled? if so, it saved within five minutes of the power out. Lou.

a further note... If PS is having trouble opening it, you might try The Gimp.. also, I will troll through SourceForge and see what they have for data recovery.. it's open source and free.

Couldn't find anything at Sourceforge.. but there are a couple around.. this is free but they want to sell "larger" version..

http://www.datanumen.com/apsr/

This one is free..

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Plugins/Photoshop-file--PSD--Extract-Recover-tool.shtml

This one says it's free

http://www.brothersoft.com/psd-recovery-free-481479.html

One thing.. DO make a copy of the corrupted file and store it somewhere.. make SURE it's the same.. check the size, that's usually a reasonable way... conversely, you can use the copied one and leave the original as-is, while you make SURE it hasn't corrupted further. Also, if you don't mind flattened.. try renaming the copy as a tiff istead of psd.. sometimes, that will work. Lou..... still looking, though, lol.

Did you try looking in the recent documents area? I know that worked in XP Pro... I just recently switched to Win 7 Pro, so I am not well versed, but maybe this could find it?

Ariana

Ilona, I found this maybe it would help.

Ariana

http://download.cnet.com/Pandora-Recovery/3000-2094_4-10694796.html?tag=api

Cara Ilona

Você já tentou abrir o arquivo em outro programa de imagem? Acho que já!!! 

Meu marido não está em casa agora mas pode ter certeza que se tiver solução ele encontra, inclusive o cache do W7, se o problema ainda não tiver sido resolvido entre em contato comigo.

Monica (mgtcs) 

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