maxm63•3d ago

My whole art week got wrecked by a single corrupted PSD file

I was putting the final touches on a big piece for a client in Portland, about 15 hours of work in, and the main file just wouldn't open. Tried everything, even a recovery tool. Ended up having to rebuild the whole background layer from scratch, which took two full days. Anyone have a backup method that actually works for huge files?

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wade_hall3d ago

You mentioned a recovery tool. Which one did you try? Some of them are really bad with big layered PSDs. I've had better luck with the manual method of forcing Photoshop to try and recover the data on open, but it's hit or miss. For backups, are you just saving locally or using something like a cloud sync?

sethanderson2d ago

My buddy tried one of those cheap recovery apps last year after his PSD got corrupted. It basically just pulled up a garbled mess of layers with all the blending modes wrong. He lost a whole client project because the file was huge, like 200 layers with smart objects. He ended up having to redo everything from old JPEGs. Now he saves locally and has Backblaze running in the background as a failsafe.