Viewing tif files in Preview, Dropbox

I've created two image files in Photoshop, removing hidden layers, merging layers, and then flattening the layers, saving them as tif files. One is about 4 MB; the other is about 24 MB.
The 4 MB files shows up fine in QuickView and in Preview; the 24 MB file shows up with a white background and one element from one of the layers.
I've also tried this saving the 24 MB tif file in layers, preserving the alpha; same result.
Uploaded to Dropbox, both tif files show up with only one layer visible, even though the file has flattened all the layers!
Thanks for any help you can offer sorting this out. I'd like to be able to view the 24 MB tif file in Preview.

Since you can open the TIFFs on a PC, then there must be something wrong with Preview on your Mac. You can use Pacifist to extract the Preview application from your original OS X installation CD/DVD. Replace the one currently on the hard drive.
But there's quite a few other apps that will open a TIFF. Photoshop, Graphic Converter, InDesign, Quark and Illustrator to name a few. There's a bunch of free and shareware viewers you could download here.

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On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:37:23 +0400, Wireless Tech Radio2
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> My son's yearbook publisher wants TIF images. Try as I
might, I can't
> seem
> to VIEW TIF files in Fireworks or Freehand.
> All I see is a box with multi-colored dots when opened.
>
> ANy ideas what the problem might be? Thanks.
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http://photoshop.msk.ru -
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On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:37:23 +0400, Wireless Tech Radio2
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> My son's yearbook publisher wants TIF images. Try as I
might, I can't
> seem
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> All I see is a box with multi-colored dots when opened.
>
> ANy ideas what the problem might be? Thanks.
Not sure but maybe some exotic compression? Where did you get
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http://photoshop.msk.ru -
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