No preview with placed tiff in Illustrator cc?

While in Illustrator cc, when I place a tiff from Photoshop, the preview does not show up. I had this problem yesterday and I worked it out with help from this forum. So today I was placing images and everything was working perfect until I wanted to place another image, all of the sudden I couldn't see a preview again. I could see a preview of the other files I placed but not this one? I check PS preferences "always show preview" is clicked. Not sure what to do, is this a bug?

what do you see when you place the file--a gray box?
solution is probably same as yesterday--sounds like you may have some file corruption (what's the source of this 'new' tiff?)
open it in photoshop and do a 'save as' with a different name--see if that helps

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No preview with placed tiff in Illustrator cc?

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