5 Replies Latest reply on Dec 9, 2017 5:44 PM by gener7

Crisis! File destroyed after pasting, any solution?

espegelan Dec 9, 2017 10:05 AM

I pasted in a layer with an image of a tree that I´d extracted, and some white stuff was pasted in along with it. Then it started duplicating. In the first round I managed to delete the layer causing the problem and save the file. When I then restarted photoshop, the whole file was screwed and looks like this. All the white and the duplicated squares is not supposed to be there.

I tried all the troubleshooting with no effect. Any idea what to do?

I´ve been working on this illustration for two full days now, and it has a deadline on Monday, total crisis!

1. Re: Crisis! File destroyed after pasting, any solution?

gener7 Dec 9, 2017 2:07 PM (in response to espegelan)

I may be wrong, but it does appear you are using MacOS which has Time Machine. You can Enter Time Machine, go back to when you had the intact copy, select and replace it.

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josephlavine Dec 9, 2017 3:24 PM (in response to espegelan)

I am very sorry this has occurred. As gener7 mentioned, your best bet is if you have some sort of auto backup such as TimeMachine.
I can't tell from your screen capture, but is the issue tide to just one layer? What happens if you systematically turn layers off? Also, have you tried doing a SaveAs and rename plus switch to PSD?
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espegelan Dec 9, 2017 3:30 PM (in response to gener7)

Thanks for the tip! But unfortunately I haven´t been connected to Time Machine since I started the illustration.
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4. Re: Crisis! File destroyed after pasting, any solution?

espegelan Dec 9, 2017 3:43 PM (in response to josephlavine)

It´s very strange. This pattern and white mesh has just been split out on all the layers. Luckily I managed to extract some of the layers with the most heavy work on it and place it in a new file. Some of the pattern followed the layers, and all layers where the clone stamp tool was used was completely damaged.

Do you suspect it could be because it´s a tiff format? I´m going to try save as PSD on a later point, right now I´m leaving this buggy file alone.
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5. Re: Crisis! File destroyed after pasting, any solution?

gener7 Dec 9, 2017 5:44 PM (in response to espegelan)

Enter Time Machine anyway. It does keep a small amount of History without the External drive. You may be lucky.

I can't say if converting to PSD will help at this point. You can try. I'm superstitious in that I stay with the native file format and that would be PSD/PSB. Flat Tiff to me is best for handing off the final work to a printing company.

Although this comes off as "lock the barndoor" advice, Timemachine and/or Dropbox which supports versioning, or even your own CC Storage.
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