So, I’m a beginner and downloaded this software to draw in my free time.
I’ve been drawing for a couple of days, and today i wanted to make some advance. I opened up my work and started to draw as usual.
I save every now and then. When I finished for the day, I saved again as usual, then closed Krita, and saw something off. The preview of my draw was the same as the one I started working today. Then I opened up and boom, every single save of todays work (like 20-30) were completely gone.
I saw something unusual on a screenshot I send a friend while i was drawing. It seems i’ve been drawing on another tab (?).
I dont know how, or what button did i pushed to do that, i dont understand what happened but i saved A LOT of times while i was drawing. I want to know if it is possible to recover that, or where is that tab hidden.
I’m very new to this, and I know its not too much that i’ve losed for a pro, but for me were like 6 hours of work. At least i want to understand what i did wrong.
That tab shows up if you have multiple files open. Maybe you opened two of the same file, saved the one you were working on, and then closing that and saving the old one? If you save the old one with the same name as the new one it might have been overwritten. (old one replaced the new one). If that is the case it might be lost
A nice tip if you don’t do it already is to save increments a lot. That means saving new files with new names (myproject1, myproject2, myproject3), so that if something goes wrong, you have backup versions! There is a nice “Save Increment” option in the “File” menu.
Yes the fact that you can open one file multiple times is a bit dangerous, if you modified both, and saved the wrong one too when closing krita (because it asks if you want to), it will overwrite what you were actually working on.
Though by default, Krita always keeps a backup, so if you only overwrote it once when ending your painting session, check for a file called “lumity2.kra~”, it might have all your progress.
And I agree, incremental saving is a good idea. I personally prefer the “incremental backup” option, that keeps your filename constant, because I’ve already managed to start working on like foo5.kra while foo6.kra was actually the latest, but wasn’t at the top in recent file list
The autosave file is only for recovering from crashes. If krita is closed/quit normally (i.e. not a crash) then the autosave file is deleted.
On Linux, the autosave file is deleted in such a way that it isn’t put in the Trash/Wastebin so it’s totally lost. I haven’t checked what happens on Windows.
Backup files and autosave files are hidden files so you’d need to set the View options of your File Explorer to show hidden files if you want to see them.
You can end up with quite a few hidden old backup files in your folder so it’s a good idea to have File Explorer set to show them.
