What OS are you using?  If Mac do you use iPhoto?

Can you get back to the folder you saved it to?  Is the folder empty?

Look carefully and double check the location when you open the File - Save As dialog.  Make sure it's not on another computer in your network or something.

-Noel

Please heed post number 3.  There's no reason to be searching!

Unless you have a serious problem, your computer is saving your files somewhere, and you just need to figure out where that is.  Searching your system in the hopes of finding something you can determine directly and in a few seconds is silly.

• Start Photoshop and open one of your images from the Recent Files menu.
• Choose File - Save As.
• Click on the selector at the top and see exactly what folder you're about to save a file into.

If you cannot figure out how to read that folder tree, then your problems are way beyond Photoshop, and you need to do some reading on how to use Windows.  Do a screen grab as I did above and we can help you interpret it.

-Noel

zoomiejub wrote:

 

This isn't a problem of my not saving it in the wrong place. I KNOW where I'm saving it.Save As> Recent Items>Pictures>(New folder)Edit.

That's not an actual folder.  Windows throws around all these Library abstractions, and all it does is cause confusion.  I believe you are creating your new "Edit" folder somewhere you didn't expect.

Try this instead:  Pick a folder that's rooted on one of your actual hard drives under Computer, as I have shown above.

Avoiding the abstractions entirely is one sure way of avoiding this kind of confusion.

The little lock symbols are essentially useless and can be ignored.  They have to do with sharing folders with other computers on your network.

-Noel