Hey all, I am fairly new to Krita (ver 4.4.8) and have been having issues with losing progress. I'm not sure if this is related to layers, since most of the stuff that disappeared had its own layer or if I'm just straight losing my work.

It first happened when I was in the middle of a sketch, I was messing around with a transparency mask on a different layer and when it didn't do what I expected I was crl+z ing out of any changes. I noticed after messing around that all the progress I made with the previous section I was working on had vanished. I couldn't have undid all of it on accident, there were too many brushstrokes and I'm positive it would have hit the undo limit. I didn't save my work so was kinda stuck with it and just moved on.

After this issue I made some serious progress and was constantly saving throughout so I wouldn't lose any anything if it happened again. I opened the file today and all the new layers are gone. BUT WTF the original progress I lost is in here.

What the hell is going on here? I tried googling the issue and the closest I found was a post here where the antivirus may have been preventing them from saving at all. To clarify I have been able to save before without issue, and I didn't feel like this solved the issue of my progress/layers disappearing mid sketch. I did however comb through my antivirus software to make sure it hadn't blocked it recently on accident.

I tried to find autosave versions, one I found looks the same and the other won't open at all (although the thumbnail looks the same). I have searched my entire PC for files, and nothing is saved in the cloud/OneDrive. Looking through the usage log, there seems to be a steady file size increase to correlate with me drawing/saving yesterday up until the last save where it drops (33 MB -> 14 MB) and overwrites my original save.

I'm sure my recent progress is gone for good, but I need to know how to prevent this in the future if I'm going to use Krita. Any advice appreciated, thanks.

This situation needs question/answer discussion and probably posting of screenshots.

I suggest that you go to https://krita-artists.org/ (sign up and log in needed) then create a new topic in the Beginners Questions category.
You can copy-paste this entire post over to your topic there.

Will do.

https://krita-artists.org/t/why-is-my-p ... ring/35646