What is Experience League Communitie3s and how come I cannot ask questions in plain community?

ADOBE MAKES ASKING QUESTIONS TOO DARN HARD.

I have been struggling for an hour to understand my problem and THAT IS RIDICULOUS.

I made a virtual copy of an image in LR and then chose “edit a copy in PS with lightroom adjustments”. When I sent the image back to LRc, there was no copy made and the new image overwrote the .TIF file original. My original (with Google AI adjustments that cannot be replicated ‘cuz I’m out of usage tokens) is ** COMPLETELY GONE **. I am quite beyond irritated. Yes, I still have the pre-Google raw file, but I am very much not happy. What should I have done?