While working on Photoshop, the PS application uses .temp files to save the work progress. The best thing about these files is if the TEMP folder exists on your computer, then in case of a Photoshop crash, then PSD files still exist on your system.
In other words, .temp files work as a backup from where you can restore PSD files. To find your PSD files, follow these steps:
- Open ‘This PC’ and then double-click on C drive where all apps exist.
- Double-click on Users and hit the appropriate username
- Open the AppData folder and pick the local folder to search the temp folder
- Open the temp folder to locate the files which are named Photoshop temp files with a random number at the end.
- Open each of the files using Photoshop.
- Now, rename the files to recover them.
Note: You can only use this method when you have Photoshop installed on your system.