Is there any way to recover a .autosave file where the linked parent is gone?
I had a hard drive failure and l lost the original file, but there is an .autosave file that looks like it's exactly the size of what I lost.
autosave file is not unfortunately a backup/full copy of the whole unsaved afphoto file, but only record new and unsaved modifications. So he needs the original file, to which the unsaved edits will be added.
So it really serves only to rescue unsaved changes, not to rescue the lost file.