Hello everybody!
From this video, you will learn how to safely keep, save, backup or recover lost files created
in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw.
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw are very reliable software but as well as
other programs they may encounter errors and failures that are not necessarily caused by
their own internal reasons.
It often results in loss of the file that the user has been working on.
So in this video we will give you some advice on how to prevent such losses or recover an
already lost Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw file.
Read detailed articles in our blog: Let’s begin with the leading commercial
software for editing bitmap images and the most popular product by Adobe – Photoshop.
When starting your work with Photoshop, remember that you can’t prevent a software error
or failure, but you can prepare for possible problems.
You can save a file regularly by using the menu File / Save, or pressing the key shortcut
CTRL+S. Yet there is a better option - to set up Photoshop
autosave function.
In order to enable and set up this function, open Adobe Photoshop and go to this menu:
Edit / Preferences / File Handling.
In the window that opens, check the boxes next to “Save in Background” and “Automatically
Save Recovery Information.”
and set a period of time.
The “Save in Background” function lets the program save files automatically without
distracting you from work.
If you enable this function, the default autosave time will be 10 minutes.
However, a lot can be done for 10 minutes, so it’s better to set the minimal time period
- 5 minutes.
If you set up the autosave function properly, you start Adobe Photoshop after a software
failure or freeze, and it suggests you to restore the latest autosaved file or just
opens an autosaved file in a window next to the one you are trying to open.
But it doesn’t happen that way quite often.
In this case, go to the folder in drive C where Photoshop keeps autosave files in the
PSB format (which is basically the same PSD file supporting large file size, which can
be opened with Photoshop).
You can find this folder by following the path: C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe
Photoshop\AutoRecover Go there and you’ll find a PSB file for
automatic recovery of the last autosaved copy of an Adobe Photoshop file.
If you select the details view, you can see the time when every autosaved file was created.
Now let’s talk about Adobe Illustrator.
Working with vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator is a long and tedious process.
That is why for cases when quite a lot of time was spent working on an illustration,
and the final result is not exactly what the designer wanted to have, there is a function
of returning to the last saved version of a file.
In order to use it, just go to the menu File / Revert.
As a result, the picture will be returned to its condition at the time of the last save,
and all changes made after that will be canceled.
Similarly to Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator has built-in tools to restore an unsaved illustration
after a software or computer failure.
You should set up this function to be able to use it effectively.
To do it: • Edit / Preferences / File Handling & Clipboard
• In the Data Recovery section of this menu,
set the intervals for autosave recovery data (ranging from 30 seconds to 60 minutes)
• and the folder where to save it.
By default, this folder is C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator Settings\ru_RU\x64\DataRecovery
• Now if there is a software failure, or if Adobe Illustrator suddenly crashes, the
program will restore all autosaved data after you start it again.
The autosave file has an extension .aid and looks like this: AIDBTemp1482247306297777136.aid
If for some reason the program doesn’t restore an illustration from an autosave data file
when you start Adobe Illustrator, you open such file manually with Adobe Illustrator.
In this case, the autosaved illustration will be restored in normal mode.
When working in CorelDRAW, you can also encounter problems with software failures.
How can we prevent data loss?
It’s just for such situations that CorelDRAW has an autosave function.
To make it more effective, you should set it up, that is, decide on the time interval
and location where saved copies will be stored.
These settings are available in the menu Tools - Options - Workspace - Save.
Of course, the shorter is the time period between autosaves, the less data will be lost
in case of failure.
However, all should be in good measure.
Every instance of saving a document takes some time, and the larger the document, the
more time it takes to save it.
The best autosave time is 10 to 15 minutes.
You should also specify the folder for autosaved files.
At the set periods of time, automatic copies of your files will be saved into such folder
with the extension *.cdr.
If anything happens or the program crashes unexpectedly, you can also go back to the
last autosaved file.
Just open the autosaved copy of your file.
Besides, in this section you can allow saving backups.
The “Backup on save” option allows saving the latest version of a file before saving
the actual file.
Backups also come in handy when recovering documents.
If the autosave function was not set up at the time of an unexpected crash or software
failure which resulted in losing an Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw
file, such file can be restored with special data recovery software supporting file formats
such as .psd (for Photoshop); *.ai, *.eps, *.ait, *.svg (for Adobe Illustrator), *.cdr
(for CorelDRAW).
There are only a few products that can help you restore these particular file types.
If your illustrations were lost after a software failure or for other reasons, you can always
have them back with Hetman Partition Recovery.
To do it: • run the utility and scan the media where
illustrations were saved.
• To recover the illustrations you need, drag them to the recovery list, or right-click
on them and click Recovery.
• Specify the location where to save the files and click Recovery.
• The files have been recovered.
In the same way, you can also recover autosaved copies of files with extensions like PSB,
*.aid or *.cdr.
That is all for now.
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