So, I was working on photoshop when I accidentally kicked the cable of the comp, which promptly disconnected it and the comp shut down. No problem, I had saved. Then, when I open PS again, SHOCK! It's not their in 'Open Recent'. Hm, I shrug. I open the folder- and it isn't there either! I've done a full search of all drives using the sucky windows search. Yet, I see it nowhere. I'm majorly pissed, it took me quite a while making that. It's not in the recycle bin either. Where the HELL has it gone?
Um, that's what happens sometimes when a computer isn't shut down correctly. It was likely saved in your hard drive's cache, and didn't get a chance to be saved to the actual hard drive. That's how computers and hard drives work.
1) If you're laughing at the situation, shame on you. 2) If you're laughing at the joke made above, if you're gonna post at LEAST contribute something to the discussion. This is why my first rule of using CS is "Save save save save save, and when at all possible, save." You can never save too much. Always be prepared, that's all I can tell ya.
Saving doesn't always save, as is what likely happened here. Reading and writing to hard drives is slow. Well, fast to us, but in terms of computer speeds, very, very slow. So hard drives have a cache, which is basically a RAM chip, and writing to RAM is very, very fast. So when you save a file, it initially goes to the cache, so you and the computer don't need to wait forever for the file to get written to the disk. Then, the hard drive will take the stuff that's in the cache and actually write it to the disk whenever the hell it feels like it. Usually, files don't hang out in the cache for long, since cache is small, and other programs want to use it. But, if she happened to knock out the power cord between writing to cache and writing to disk, then the file's gone. Whenever you unmount a drive (which is one of the things that happens when you shut down a computer properly), all files in the cache are written to the disk.
Oh, I didn't know that. I guess I've been lucky, any time the power has gone off RIGHT after I've saved in Photoshop, I've been able to access that file.
Yeah, I'd say the chances of being screwed like that are very slim. Usually, writes from cache to disk happen almost instantly. Or the other possibility is that the hard drive was in the middle of writing the file when the power went out and corrupted something
Ok, I definitely saved it. I'm saying that because I've been working on this file for the past 2-3 days, so even if, as you said Todd, that the file is in the cache and hasn't been written into the hard disk yet, then atleast the copy of the file BEFORE I even open PS that day should be alive and kicking, shouldn't it? I mean, I somewhat understand your point, but the fact remains I had opened and saved and used it many times before yesterday, too. Thank you.
i don't know if your wiindows has that programe to "return to the past" that is,to programe it to be as it was on a certain date,...i don't know how to put it...f*ck
Nah, a buddy of mine was able to use System Restore to get his 2 hour old installation of Vista back up and running after it started bluescreening right when vista booted up