Hi everyone, I’m a new member here. I drew a burger on Krita 5.2.3. I tried to export it to my tablet. It went well but I couldn’t find my drawing on Krita. It was saved automatically, right? And I also clicked SAVE button to save it. But now, I just cannot find it anymore? Please help me to find my great drawing. I named it “bread”.
Hello @Summer8, and welcome to the forum!
So you drew something and tried to export it to a tablet and can’t find it.
So far, so bad.
Let’s start with the beginning:
The device with Krita 5.2.3 on which you drew your burger is what kind of device and what operating system does it use?
From where do you have your copy of Krita?
In which format did you export your drawing?
Where and how did you export your drawing?
Is your tablet the same or a different device, and if it is a different device, which operating system does your tablet use?
Do you also have Krita installed on this tablet? If so, in which version?
I’m asking because Krita’s current formal release is 5.2.6 for Linux, macOS and Windows, and for Android it is 5.2.8 if I’m not mistaken?
Michelist
Hello Michelist,
Thank you for your response.
I use Krita with my Samsung Galaxy Tablet S9 FE+
I download Krita from Google store of my tablet.
I chose Krita export default all saving format, it is the first choice.
I just clicked "export (X) " to my profile folder. And it was there but I couldn’t openit, so, I deleted it to the trash bin and empty the trash bin too.
I only use one device to draw on Krita with this tablet.
My Krita is 5.2.3. It’s free
Krita 5.2.3 is always changing itself, I thought it might be the reason I didn’t pay it. But I was told by BestBuy salesperson Krita is free.
Now, my “tools” function becomes SCRIPT, pretty much frozen, i couldn’t use this function.
Please see if you can help me. Welcome all artists who know how to fix these two problem to leave your advice here. Thank you again.
Summer8
Hi Michelist,
My tablet has no windows, it only uses google workplaces.
Summer8
Okay, now I see a little clearer, there is only one device, and you have issues to find your picture.
The first thing you have to know, is that Krita does not save the pictures automatically for you. Krita creates an adjustable amount of crash-recovery-files, you also can set up Krita to save an adjustable number of Backup copies for you, but these are only a first and a second “safety net” for the artists. If your Krita should crash, for instance, and it created directly before that crash such a crash-recovery-file, then you are lucky and will most probably not have lost much of your process, but if you are unlucky, then the last snapshot is quite old, and you’ll lose a lot!
So, what should you do?
The first thing is that you always should save your work the first time directly after creating a new canvas, so you save an empty canvas. Give it an unambiguous name, so you can always find it using that name, and give it the file name extension KRA for Krita’s own file-format, so you don’t lose any information of it (for your file it would mean to name it “bread.kra”). From this moment on, your work is no longer an anonymous file with an exchangeable standard-name, which in case of a crash ends up in a hard reachable folder and gets a name given by a random generator that is impossible to guess and can only be found if you know that folder, from now on a possible crash-recovery-file would be written directly beside your original using the same name with only added a tilde (e.g.: ~), to distinguish it from the original.
If you start Krita after a crash, Krita will ask you if you want to load that crash-recovery-file, or if you want to discard it.
So you should get into the habit of creating backups while you are working on a file at frequent intervals depending on your pace of painting. Krita offers two mechanisms to create two different kinds of “security-files”, F4 “Save Incremental Backup” and CTRL + ALT + S = “Save Incremental Version”, you can read up how they work in the manual of Krita:
https://docs.krita.org/en/index.html
I’m regularly using F4 “Save Incremental Backup”, but you have to consider checking your disk space on your tablet, because both mechanisms need lots of space, but if you always delete the files you created two sessions before, you’ll “balance” the space used while working on something, but you’ll have a safety net if things go horribly wrong.
Now you should be halfway informed about how you can protect your valuable work!
Let’s go over to your “bread”.
After you saved your file the first time via ‘‘File’’ >> ‘‘Save Ctrl+S’’ as “bread.kra” or ‘‘File’’ >> ‘‘Save as Ctrl+Shift+S’’ for using a different name for your project, you should always save it as *.KRA. And if you need a copy of your file in JPG, PNG, GIF or whatever different format you don’t use ‘‘File’’ >> ‘‘Save Ctrl+S’’ or ‘‘File’’ >> ‘‘Save as Ctrl+Shift+S’’ but instead ‘‘File’’ >> ‘‘Export’’, because “Save” and “Save as” will always rename your file to the format you want to export in, and this way you flatten a Krita-File with XYZ layers to a single layer file and destroy the whole structure of it!
Now to finding your “bread”, your file manager in Android has a function to search for files. If you don’t know it → ask Google, I don’t own a working Android device!
This allows you to enter the (partially) known name of any file into the search facility of your file manager and search for it. So here I would enter “bread*” into the search-box because the asterisk is a placeholder that can stand for an unlimited number of every possible glyph and should help you find files where you only know parts of the name, if you are sure that only a single letter is unknown to you, you can put a question mark instead of that missing letter. Let’s say you would search for your bread without being sure about the “r”, then you can enter
"b?ead.*" as search term and will get all files from "baead.*" to "bzead.*" (plus all special chars) and an unknown file name extension.
If you find it uncomfortable, you may want to try a different file manager, like Total Commander, which is a free software for Android with a very powerful search function, and other useful abilities when it comes to Krita on Android.
Now I’m going to sleep, it is 2 AM here, and I heave a headache and a little fever.
Michelist
Hi @Summer8
That’s not a change, script is always on the tools menu. It isn’t anything you’ll use on Android – just wanted you to know that your system isn’t changing itself, it sounds more like you’re learning how to use Krita and it’s all still very new.
On Android, it’s really important to choose the folder you save to very carefully. Don’t let your tablet decide the save location. The Android eco-system prevents Krita from accessing most of your folders.
Start out by saving to the downloads folder. After you get used to Krita, you can set up your own folder to hold your Krita documents the way you like.
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Hello sooz,
Thank you very much for your message and suggestion. I will save it in my download folder and don’t delete it in the future. Thanks again.
Summer8
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Hello Michelist,
I really appreciate your message and your time to write a lot of info to support me with my problem. I will pay attention to saving a work in the future. And I will follow up with your suggestions to see if I can find my burger back. I’m very new to Krita, and even my Samsung tablet is new too. I will see if I can find an Android technician for help. Thank you again and I hope you feel much better now after a good sleep. 
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