Damaged Photoshop File


shmekldorf's avatar
I don't know why or how, but I have one psd file of a painting I've been working on and everything was normal yesterday. Today I went to open it up and a box pops up saying

"This document contains Adobe Photoshop data which appears to be damaged. Continue and ignore the Photoshop data?"

If I say okay then it opens as a black canvas. If I cancel, then nothing happens.

What is this?Why might it have happened? Is my picture lost forever?
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ChimeraDragonfang's avatar
All may not be lost! Give www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoR… a try. I've only ever had to use it for text documents myself, but one of my friends managed to successfully recover a completely corrupted .psd file using PhotoRec. The interface can be a bit weird if you've never used the command line instead of a graphical interface, but there's a handy walk-through on the wiki.

You will want to narrow the search parameters down to just Photoshop files, because it will find absolutely everything. If all goes well, it's possible-- even likely -- that you will end up with multiple copies of the corrupted files, each one from a different save point, and will have to do some digging to find the most recent version.
shmekldorf's avatar
Thanks so much! I'll try it out!
NS-Games's avatar
It's corrupted data. Most likely the file wasn't saved properly the last time it was closed and now is completely unreadable, which is why you're only getting a black canvas. And I'm sorry, but once that happens there's really not much you can do to get it back unless you made a backup copy of the drawing.
shmekldorf's avatar
Thanks. I appreciate you explaining this to me.
NS-Games's avatar
You're welcome. Again, sorry I don't have better news.