Missing clipping path files cs6

I have about 65 complicated photos I have outlined in Photoshop CS6. Opened tif file. outlined file, saved path as outline. saved outline path as a clipping path. Saved the file. Went back to use the files and all but one of my files is missing its clipping path.they are all in the same folder. in years of making and saving clipping paths I have never had this happen. Any Ideas? Its about 8 hours of work and I really don't want to be up all night redoing them. Please help.

I just experienced this problem. I have Photoshop cs6, and I send a Photoshop file with a saved clipping path to 2 different people. When both received the file, the clipping path was gone, missing, deleted. My PSD file still has the clipping path.
I archived the PSD file inside a Gzipped Tarball, and send a link to download it.
Is this a bug?

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This is probably a simple fix but is driving me crazy!
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Any ideas what I have done?
Thanks

Select the Paths and check the Path Operations.

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I've logged this before but had no success. However - I now know what's causing my problem.
Ever since CS2, we've had a problem with missing clipping paths. We get the same in CS3 where Object>Clipping Path loses the 2 sub menus (Options and Convert Clipping Path to Frame). This problem seems to be on the increase and I'm having to fix about 10 per week on a base of 200 machines.
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"binning"? Is that like deleting or throwing out the trash?
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I have a map with roads etc drawn in FH9, I have placed a box
over that part of the map I wish to export as eps and cut contents
then paste inside box. I now see just the map within the box.
Export as eps. (I do this all the time). Open it into photoshop, it
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drop to stage, sees all the artwork outside of the box, stuff I
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> I saved a Photoshop EPS CYMK image with a clipping path.
It imports into Adobe
> InDesign CS, but not into Freehand. All I get is a white
box.
> I just read here that Freehand will not accept EPS
files. How else to get the
> PS clipping path file into a FH document?
FreeHand will import eps images but while ID can read the
file and show it on screen FH can only use preview image i.e. low
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Photoshop PSD is fine for all raster work. But if you have vector masks, vector shapes or text in the file then saving as PDF would be the better option, you can choose to remove the white background when importing the PDF in the Show Options of the Place Dialog box.
And that's null point anyway, as soon as you open a photoshop EPS file in Photoshop it rasterises everything. So what I said isn't a viable solution for this project. But to keep in mind that PSD will output as raster only and PDF can have transparency and raster + vector data.
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Hi All,
I have problem with detecting clipping path settings in EPS.
It's easy to find all cliping paths in file, they are listed in clippingPath.photoshopPathNames
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