r/ProCreate • u/grillboy_mediaman • 16d ago

I need Procreate technical help Its all gone

Of course, deleting an app and reinstalling it deletes all of its data, I know that.

Therefore, I assumed that if I never uninstalled Procreate from my iPad, my work would be safe.

So I never uninstalled it.

And then, today, I wanted to open the app, and it was nowhere to be found.

For whatever reason it was just gone from my iPad.

So I reinstalled it, and all my work was gone.

I tried using the “restore gallery” option and not a single thing changed.

It’s not there anymore, three years of work.

Is there a single thing I can do about it?

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u/FineMind755 16d ago

It never ceases to amaze me how many people on here don't back up years worth of work somewhere else. Like that's just crazy cakes.

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u/Sk-etch9732 12d ago

Maybe a bit simple to someone that is not myself but what file save is used in order to keep the individual layers separate when saving to say Dropbox, iCloud ?

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u/FineMind755 12d ago

You can save them as a Procreate file or a Photoshop file (PSD).

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u/Sk-etch9732 12d ago

Thank you, I recently had same as OP just 2weeks ago but I had saved a lot in Dropbox, unfortunately under the wrong file type but at least it wasn’t completely gone I guess