Multiple users working in one Photoshop file?

We have been doing a lot of photoshop work recently in the office and have quickly run into a problem. Due to some poor communication on my part, two of us ended up working within the same photoshop file at the same time on separate computers. Unaware of this, both of us kept saving our work, every time overwriting the other persons work. After we discovered this hours of work was lost. My question is this: is there a way where multiple people can work within a single photoshop file without saving copies for each person to work within or is there a way to prevent someone from overwriting a .PSD file while it is open by another user?

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Did you ever find a solution to this problem? I would imagine every single team of designers runs into this and I'm surprised it's virtually nonexistent in forums.

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