Corrupt Black PSD File

Morning all,
I have a large psd file 239 megs, when I opened this morning it was black and all layers where gone. Has anyone had this problem and is there a solution? It would be very much appreciated as a lot of work has gone into the Image.
Cheers

Did you get any error messages when opening the file?
If so, it's probably corrupt on disk.
If not, then it was probably saved that way and you might be looking at the wrong file (same name, different directory maybe?).

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