# Help! Lost Texture!?

**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/help-lost-texture/42131
**Category:** Maya
**Tags:** new-user
**Created:** [April 26, 2009, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/help-lost-texture/42131 "2009-04-26T11:32:34Z")
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### Author: ![fuzquia](https://forum.highend3d.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/c0e974/32.png) [@fuzquia](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/fuzquia)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2009, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/help-lost-texture/42131/1 "2009-04-26T11:32:34Z")

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I had successfully managed to texture my characters and scene. However I had to do a 'save as' in order to import a character more than once and it has resulted in me losing all my textures in both files?

I closed the original file down and opened my new (the 'saved as') document. On opening, all my characters had lost their textures and only have grey (blinn) bodies. So I went back to the original file, and to my horror this was the same?

I opened up hypershade and selected 'edit PSD network', this enabled me to open up (via photoshop) the correct PSD file that still seems to be linked to each model, I made a slight change to allow me to re-save and update the PSD network, but it does not show a preview of the textures in maya?

I have my view selected to 'smooth shade all', is there a setting I am missing?