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Spent 4 hours on a digital painting and accidentally saved over it with a blank canvas.
Last Tuesday night I was finishing up a portrait commission in Procreate and somehow hit 'save as new' instead of duplicating the file. Now the only version left is a white screen with one brush stroke. Has anyone else lost work like this and found a way to recover it?
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walker.julia17d ago
Ah man, "saved over it with a blank canvas" made me cringe so hard I think I pulled something. I did the exact same thing with a watercolor piece last year, except I was trying to back up to the cloud and just overwrote the original file like a genius. Procreate does have that auto-backup feature if you dig into the layers menu sometimes, but honestly I had zero luck getting anything back once it was gone. I ended up just staring at the ceiling for twenty minutes before realizing I had to redo the whole thing from memory. Now I literally duplicate every file three times before I even think about pressing save, because my brain refuses to learn from mistakes the first time around.
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spencer_gonzalez117d ago
@walker.julia been there, triple backup crew for life.
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blair_chen8117d ago
The triple backup method is the only way to go. Did this exact thing with a digital painting a few months back - had it on my iPad, thought I'd be smart and clean up my files, deleted the original without checking my backups. Spent a good hour just staring at my screen trying to remember how I did that specific brush stroke. Redoing it from memory is the worst because you know it's never gonna look the same. Now I keep copies on my tablet, phone, and an external drive just to be safe. What's your go-to backup method when you're deep in a project?
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