How To Restore Hidden Files

I have a strange problem. I'm trying to restore a file from yesterday that Adobe Photoshop puts in a temporary folder under /private - which is hidden in Time Machine. I've figured out how to display hidden folders in Time Machine. However, /private is still faded out and I can't access it despite executing the Terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE;killall Finder
The path of my file is /private/var/folders/mq/T/TemporaryItems/
Does Time Machine even back up these files? If so, how can I access them so I can restore it? I lost a lot of work yesterday and I'm freaking out trying to find it. Thanks!

Just open a terminal and access it directly.

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