How to reverse a PSD file that's combined layers into one layer...

Hi,
I'm not quite sure what happened but I had a PSD file I was working on with multiple layers and then I saved a PDF of the file and I think I may of accidentally switched up the files somehow because now my PSD file's layers are all combined into one background layer. How do I undo this (somehow release all of the layers again into the file)? I need to send the PSD file with all of it's layers available for editing and I have no idea how to fix this.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!
ashmic19

Unless you have a backup copy of the layered PSD, you can't. Once flattened and saved, you can never reconstruct the flattened layers, they are gone. Sorry...best is to save multiple copies so if this happens in the future you won't suffer this again.

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