I was tweaking our logo trying to make a new favicon for our websites and I went to hit ctrl+d to deselect. Instead I accidentally hit ctrl+s, right next door, which automatically saves over the original without any confirmation. Slight panic set in! Since I was working with the original logo file that we use for everything it would really really suck to overwrite it with a 16x16 pixel version. By some shear amount of luck, the very last step showing in my 50 lines of history state was "open" (about 35 or so steps in the middle were the pencil tool tweaking 1 pixel at a time). Phew! Dodged a bullet on that one, one more mouse click and it would have been gone forever. Now I have multiple backup copies in multiple locations.

Watch those shortcuts people! I can't believe that's the first time I've ever made that mistake.

amateur!

I've done something like this before, Vista's shadowcopy actually saved my butt.

Nice save!

ctrl-z wouldn't have undone the change?

File -> revert...

oh, and if it's something important like that, open it, copy it, paste it into a new file....

Originally Posted by thomps6s

Nice save!

ctrl-z wouldn't have undone the change?

it will only undo the last step. And saving doesn't count.

This is why we use version control at work.

Originally Posted by thomps6s

Nice save!

ctrl-z wouldn't have undone the change?

Only if he didn't exceed his preset undo levels.

--kC

this is why my history is usually set to like 100 levels