Photo went black when opening in editor!

Hi there,
I thought I'd try the editor in Photos. As soon as I opened my first image it showed up black in the editor. I didn't touch any controls, it happened immediately. I got out of the editor and the thumbnail had gone black. The image is now just black. Revert to Original is not available, show referenced file is not available.
It is an old (2010) PEF raw image from a Pentax camera. This image showed up fine before opening the editor.
I am terrified I may lose my photos permanently, just because I open the editor!!!
Any help appreciated.

It's AMD that have been doing the tweaking/correcting. Catalyst 13.1 can be problematic for any version of Ps that uses OpenGL although you may not have exposed the problems until yesterday. Your example image shows the bug where a pixel with red component of zero is displayed as completely black.

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