I've been working on a Photoshop file for the last 10 days or so, was about half-way through, then had a computer problem where my graphics card glitched while I was working on the file. Thinking I was doing the right thing, I saved the file as it's normal name (which was my mistake) and exited out of Photoshop to restart the computer. When it came back up and I tried to open the file, it wouldn't open - telling me that the file was corrupted....wouldn't open in any other graphics program - I tried Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP, Irfanview, pdf programs. I'm on a PC, by the way...Windows 8, and was using Photoshop Elements, not the full-blown Photoshop.

I know there are some folks out there who work with Photoshop either constantly or professionally or both. Does anyone have any way to try to repair a corrupted psd file like this? I've tried several on-line repair tools, and several ones that I downloaded - and all do the same thing - they repair one small corner of the drawing...nothing else. There are no previous versions of the file that I can find, and temp files don't seem to open.

Anyone out there know of anything that's worked for you?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks, ForceFlow - that program was one that I tried yesterday...didn't work. I've already started to redraw the file....was just hoping someone had a magic bullet that I didn't know about that would save me a few days work. Appreciate the advice.

Thanks Pinzap - I just looked into "File History", and I had apparently turned it off - presumably to save space, though I don't remember turning it off. So no soup for me.

Thank you, appropriately named @Crash. I'm redrawing it...slowly... I guess the lesson I should learn is not to save the file with the original name if I'm experiencing a computer glitch...and possibly to turn on "File History"...and possibly to switch to Windows 10.

Well, it was only about 10 days of work, which I can redo - better that than family photos. I do have external HD backups of those.

Hi Palmer - no, I haven't heard of that site. I'll give it a try when I get back from work today. Thanks!

Palmer - the file wouldn't open on their site, of course - a pop-up appears saying I can send it to their email and "they'll fix it". While I love their optimism, I'm not too hopeful. I'm back in the rhythm of redrawing it, though - I'll probably just keep slogging away at it. It's going faster the second time through - might only take me 8 days!

I actually enjoy the process of doing the drawing (it's redrawing schematics) - it's just the immediate emotional hit you take when you lose all that work. I shed some tears, asked deep existential questions, and now I'm back to work....

Wasn't able to save the file - wound up just re-drawing the whole thing.