Multi-Layered Image reopens as blank layers with no work done.

Hi!
My Quick Selection tool was acting weird, so I saved my multi layered image but when I reopened the image, there was no work saved. All that showed up were blank layer after blank layer with the names I had put in. What happened to the amount of work I put in?!!?!?!?!?!? Is there a way to recover alllll my work? Please Help!!!!
Thanks,
Lynn

Thank you both for your answers.
In the meantime I researched further and found exactly the issue and a workaround. The issue is only with 16 bit psd files and has to do with alpha channels as you both mentioned. Now, I would disagree that this is acceptable behavior Leonie. In my opinion this is a serious bug but anyways.. 
A workaround is to place an all white alpha channel exactly after the RGB channels and BEFORE any other alpha channel as suggested here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2708851?start=0&tstart=0
This is working (contrary to what is said in the above post) but be patient with the previews as they take ages to update.
Trying to automate this I've made an action to create the alpha channel and used the script manager to run it when a new document is created. Now this does not work because the document is created in Aperture when pressing 'open in external editor' and the event is skipped. I instead had to associate the action with 'open document' which of course means that I will have an alpha channel created every time I open a document..
I made the action so it names the channel 'bug fix' so I will just have to clean up every now and then.. I may choose to activate the action with a shortcut instead and have to remember every time I create a new document.
Anyways, a bit of an annoying bug and seems to be around for quite a while. Hopefully Apple is going to fix it at some point.
Best
Dionysis

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