Layers lost after saving as psd

I am having trouble with losing all my layers after saving. I have read many posts hoping to find some direction with no success. I tried rebuilding the entire project and only saving as a psd, still no success. I have made sure to check the layers box. And every time I open it on my Mac, the layers are still intact. However, my programmer and everyone else I send it to- end up with one merged background layer. Does anyone happen to know what may be the reason for this? I appreciate any help/ discussion.

I believe I have solved it. And the above mentioned was partially correct. I was sending it through email, and it was being compressed to 'medium size' rather than actual size. This was rendering the file uneditable w/in Ps. I probably should have figured this out sooner, but I guess it happens. Nevertheless, thanks for the help.
Attached is a thread to a similar problem/ solution.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1965557?tstart=0

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