Problems opening "old" PhotoShop documents

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Erling_Smemo
May 18, 2004
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I have a .psd-document created in PhotoShop 6.0.1 with several layers and text. The document was created in OS9.2.2
Now I’m using PhotoShop 7 in OSX 10.3.3. The .psd-document will not open!

The document itself is compressed in a OS9 .sea (Aladdin self-extracting document). De-compressing these documents (the .psd-document and two .tif-pictures) leaves them in a folder. The psd-document and the tif-picture contains several text-layers and other layers.

Do you have any idea what to do to get to these documents?

For the record, I use a PowerBook G4 12", 867 MHz, 640 RAM 60GB HD

-Erling S
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Ed_Hannigan
May 19, 2004
What methods of opening have you tried?

What do you see if you do Get Info on the files as fafr as what you can do (Read, Write, etc.)?
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Erling_Smemo
May 19, 2004
I’ve tried opening the documents with choosing "Open" from Photoshop, and I’ve tried double-clicking them in Finder.
Both results in the same:

Error message:
"There was a problem reading the layer data. Red the composite data instead?"

and

"Couldn’t open the file "<filename>.psd" because the file is not compatible with this version of Photoshop"

In the info-window, I read:

Ownership and rights:
You can Read and Write

Details:
Owner: erling2 (my username)
Access: Read and Write

Group: Admin
Access: Read only

Others: Read only

I tried changing all this to Read and Write, but that didn’t help.

Any more ideas?

I also have a tif-version of the picture. The messages I get is: "This image was generated from source data that Photoshop cannot read. That data will be discarded. Continue reading?"

and

"Could not open "<filename>.tif" because of a problem parsing the TIFF file"

Does this help?

I’m arranging to try the documents on a iMac with OS9, to see if that helps…
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Chris_Cox
May 19, 2004
Sounds like the files are just corrupted.
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Erling_Smemo
May 19, 2004
That was what I was afraid of.

I will try one last thing:
Run a Norton Disk Doctor check on the harddisk. Maybe the files can be restored properly. But after that, I leave it to the trash can.

I recon then that the CD has had some difficulties burning and the files are corrupted…

Thanks for the help anyway!!

-E

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