Corrupt photoshop files

After changing to Snow Leopard, I opened an old folder full of Photoshop CS3 files. All of them were apparently corrupt. All of them are now Unix Executable Files? When I try to open them by changing them into Photoshop CS5 in Information ( Command I)- Photoshop tells me that it cannot open the file because it doesn't recognize it?
What Can be done to convert and open these into Photoshop CS5? Can these files be saved?

Hi Byron I replied to John before I had a chance to view your post . I posted a link of all the things I had done to try and resolve this. I essentially followed these guides I haven’t cracked it yet but will keep going over it until I can.
I hope they work for you.
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/restore_corruptedproject.html
http://www.fcpbook.com/misc1.html
Does any one know if regular gif or Jpeg picture files have any history of corrupting in FCE3.5? So maybe saving the files as Jpegs or gifs and importing them in that format might be a future solution?

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Thank you for sharing such information, actually I also encountered this kind of problem. But, while searching on internet, I came across Remo repair software which can fix corrupt Photoshop file at your fingertips.

Any fixes for timemachine corrupting photoshop files?

I've seen older discussions about this issue... I'm using CS4 with OX10.5... my time machine back up is a 1TB Phantom Green drive... its only using 150 gb os space! so I don't think the size is the issue. Time machine gets stuck...then in order to get out of it you have to restart... any photoshop files that were open while time machine was trying to run gets corrupted....
ok I've been negligent in trying to get this resolved.. its been happening for about 4 months now... I cannot think of anything that I added to make this happen....
has anyone figured this out yet?

Hi, for my money TM is the only backup solution worse than no bacjup at all, but that being said...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
Repair both the Source & Backup Destination, if TM still fails then some file is bad & needs replacing or deletion.

Corrupt Photoshop file changes text when clicking in text layer

I have a really weird problem with one of my files. When I click on the text, it changes the text to completely different words. Seems like it is corrupt somehow... please see below images to see what I mean. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a fix? I'm on CS6 mac OS 10.8.4.
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Out of curiosity I also opened up the file in text edit to see if there was anything obvious, and here's some of the code. I'm assuming this is preview text for search, but either way seems a bit fishy.
<rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource">
<photoshop:LayerName>Partners</photoshop:LayerName>
<photoshop:LayerText>WE WILL BE...</photoshop:LayerText>
</rdf:li>
Trying to edit the text and saving it out corrups the file.

That was a problem in Photoshop 13.0 that was fixed in later dot releases. Please make sure you have the latest updates installed.
But the file itself was corrupted and cannot be completely repaired. The good news is that the bug just scrambled the text - it's all there, just moved around.

How to stop Leopard corrupting CS2/CS3 Photoshop files?

Ever since upgrading to Leopard 10.5.3 (including updates since then)--the DAY AFTER I installed 10.5.3--I have had intermittent corruption of Photoshop files (.psd, .tif, .jpeg). The only constant from the dozens of times this has happened is that it happens when I am saving in Photoshop; Photoshop freezes up, won't shut down; I have to manually reboot; and then the file I was saving AND files that had been saved in the last several hours (and were okay) have been corrupted into Mexican rugs. I repeat, files that were saved and opened and previously found to be okay ARE THEN RETROACTIVELY CORRUPTED along with the file I'm currently trying to save. Also, when Photoshop froze, before shutting down, I've tried opening recent files with Preview and they look okay, and I take captures of the images before I shut down, and after reboot these are corrupted as well. This has been going on for six months, unpredictably. It has happened with lots of things running (iTunes, DVD player, podcasts) and little running; with a full desktop and a clean desktop; saving to desktop, Lacie drives, and different internal drives on my G5. Apple Store says nothing wrong with my machine, I've wiped my drive and run Disk Warrior--no problems. The only constant is that I never had this problem prior to Leopard 10.5.3 and have had it ever since the day after I did that upgrade, and subsequent upgrades. It started with CS2, so I upgraded to CS3. It still happens, however unpredictably. I also noted tonight when it froze that after reboot, I couldn't use Spotlight for ten minutes because the OS was "indexing". Error messages include "Could not complete your request because an unexpected end-of-file was encountered", "Could not complete your request because the file is not a TIFF file (it is)", "Could not complete your request because of a problem parsing the TIFF file", " Cannot open file because it was created with different version of Photoshop (not true)". No other file formats or files are corrupted, only Photoshop-created files.
Please note that Apple’s release of 10.5.3 caused corruption of PS CS2 files when saved over networks, instigating upgrade 10.5.4 days later. I never had any problem like this with Panther or Tiger; indeed, I wish I’d never upgraded to Leopard due to the lost hours and income this corruption problem has created. But I did, and now I’m stuck. Any solutions out there?

If you're seeing issues with files from multiple applications, I'd suspect corrupt sectors on your hard drive. Do you have an external/another drive you could install OS X and your applications on and see if the symptoms persist?
Otherwise, here's another suggestion:
If I was dealing with your issue, here's what I'd do.
1) Backup my data--not a clone of the drive, since you're having issues.
2) Erase the drive and reinstall OS X. Do not bring in any applications yet.
3) Apply all OS updates.
4) Reinstall one 3rd-party (non-Apple) software application. Test this for a few hours or a day and see if any issues pop up.
5) If things are still error-free after a day, make a clone of the drive to an external. This way, if any changes you make cause problems, you can erase the internal and then restore your copy of the clone to the internal.
6) Install another application, and repeat the steps.
Best of luck to you!
~Lyssa

Installed Photoshop cc 2014 asks for serial # - corrupted Windows file permissions

More of a warning / heads up to all than a question - installing Photoshop cc 2014 [via the CC manager app] caused some Windows file (security) permissions to become corrupt corrupt on my system. Symptoms include cc2014 asking for serial number validation on startup (when, as a cloud version, it should not do so), then being unable to connect to the internet when you press the 'validate serial' button so getting that window into infinite loops, and - a real pain in the *** when trying to fix the above - causing abends of some windows shell functions that in turn cause windows explorer to crash and restart.
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Anyhow, if, fellow Photoshop cc 2014 user, you get this happen to you then you can fix the file permissions by opening a console window [also called a "DOS box", or "command prompt" depending on your age and knowledge... 8-) ] and run the windows file checker with the command
"sfc /scannow". Make sure that you use 'run as administrator' to open the console window, or you'll get an error about sfc only being available to administrators. Also a very (very) sensible idea to close all non-essential running applications first to prevent any possibility of weird interactions happening.
Finally, check that the 'hosts' file in [root drive]:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc is valid - for some reason, it looks like the install tried to check or update this file (again, I have no idea why) but the result was a corrupted hosts file, which I assume is the root cause of the 'unable to connect to host' type internet error messages. Copy the file, rename it as 'hosts.txt' and edit it with notepad or wordpad. Look for lines containing garbage strings at the bottom of the file (any line that starts with a # ignore, it is a comment, and any line that has IP addresses or host names should be ignored - though if they reference a site such as "someserver.adobe.com" you might want to treat them with suspicion if you continue to get internet 'cant connect to site' type errors.
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Hope this helps somebody out there in AdobeLand......
Rick

Update: I tried several times to reproduce the error, actually it dosen't occur. I changed nothing on my system, without reboot it twice. This is what I said in my beginning times: it occurs sometimes but often. I will keep you up to date.

Corrupted icons in finder/bad Photoshop files

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I have run disk utlility and it finds nothing wrong with permissions (I ran the repair anyway). When I reboot they continue as a scrambled mess. The network icon frequently disappears after reboot. SMART status says "verified."
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Ideas?

I will reply to myself...
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Photoshop file laid over a .mov from LiveType corrupts project files

I have an edited sequence in FCE 3.0 At the beginning in V1 is a 7 second .mov title created in LiveType: the usual thing - squiggling text appears over an animated background using the Texture > Liquid > Silver. In V2, and overlapping the .mov is a Photoshop file (.PSD). It has one layer which has an image occupying half of the layer which is otherwise transparent. (By "overlapping" I mean that when the Playhead is over the .mov it is also over the Photoshop file). The Photoshop file is shorter than the .mov and its right hand end is aligned with the right hand end of the .mov. The Sequence in the Timeline is of course rendered. The result is that the title appears and then the Photoshop image overlays it. Fine, it works.
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I have read www.fcpbook.com/Photoshop6.html Part 3 mentions the use of overlaid PSD files with transparency, and mentions creating a new Channel and converting to a PICT, but unlike the graphic in the site page, my Photoshop (version 7) does not offer the choice of a PICT - just PSD or RAW - so no help there.
It seems clear that the PSD file is the problem. Can't FCE handle them as overlays? Any ideas please on how to get the effect that I want?

See my answer to your post in the other thread: FCE HD 3.0x: Corrupt Project Files after Photoshop-Import.
Piero

Photoshop CC 2014 saves corrupted jpeg files!

I just cant understand this???
Photoshop CC 2014 saves corrupted jpeg files and some other file formats. PSD and PNG works.
I have try with the latest iMac and the latest Mac Book Pro, both with Mavericks and Yosemite. Im saving to their internal hard drives. I can not open the corrupted photos on any application.

Nobody else has had problems with the files saved by Photoshop.
Are you sure you aren't just saving the wrong file extension on a different file type (i.e.: a PSD file with .jpeg on the end still isn't a JPEG file)?

Photoshop file corrupted, can open it but it only shows lines, preview looks just fine

Dear fellow photoshop users,
I got a serious problem.
today I had opened my photoshop file which I was coloring ( a comic page) I allready spend 3days on this comic and I just don't wanne start over .
I was working on it in CS6,
As friends suggested I had opened it aswell in CS5 to try if it works there but no it didn't. I also placed it in AI, but sadly again the ugly line picture shows up .
Can someone help me?
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The preview is stored separately.
Yes, the file is corrupted -- you need to check your disk for other problems.
No, it is not likely to be recoverable.

Photoshop file corruption (selections deleted from layers)

I was working on 5 photoshop files today. Photoshop stared previewing one of the files very oddly (when you zoomed in nothing was there).
I saved all open files and quit Photoshop.
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I have basically lost a full days work.
has anyone had anything similar??
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Yes, I have this corruption issue as well. For me, it is not reproducable (no specific action causes it that I have found), and intermittant (happens inconsistently but not infrequently, maybe once or twice a month out of hundreds of files and working hours). It seems like it more often happens in layer masks first, but once the corruption starts, it shows in layer image data as well. Often it looks blocky like you are seeing, and also as you mention, cached zoom levels don't show the corruption.
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Large layered Photoshop files corrupted

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I tested a file last night as follows:
Sent file via 'Edit with Photoshop CS5' (as PSD 8-bit, sRGB color space) > changed background to normal layer > created circular selection around subject and inverted to remove most of image leaving transparent area (about 70% of image) > saved file > closed Photoshop > file updated in Aperture with black filling in the transparent area.
Resent the PSD back to Photoshop (which opened correctly with transparent area) > created two new layers and sent one to background > filled new background layer with White and left top new layer transparent > saved again and closed Photoshop > file updated in Aperture with white showing in transparent areas (no black).
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I downloaded the PSD trial. Worked in it. Saved my file. Now when I try to open it it says "not a valid photoshop file"

That depends on why it won't open. Most of the time it means the file is corrupted and unlikely to be recovered. If you saved it right after adding or copying a LOT of layers - then it might just be the layer limit and we can attempt to recover it.

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Background info (if needed) Dual 2.0 Ghz, PowerMac G5, 8 gb RAM, running Tiger 10.4.11
I have attached a sample Illustrator file that will not Parse. It will open in Illustrator but not parse into Photoshop or if placed in Quark will not parse and allow for a PDF to be exported.

Thanks for taking the time to write Steve.
I understand that I can drag and drop between programs. Ultimately, when attempting to parse an EPS in photoshop I am merely doing it to confirm that the EPS is indeed corrupt.
As mentioned previously, I predominately use Quark Xpress for my page layout program and until I installed CS4 I have had zero complications with using EPS files. Now I quite commonly can not export PDFs due to corrupt EPS files.
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