can’t open psd files

joel tenzin wrote:

Ps Cs4 tells me " can’t open this file, this is not a psd file". From my DD or from my CDrom. Those are psd files I made with Ps 7, with not much layers, not larges ones. tried to rename the extension, copy… unseccessefull. any ideas how to recover them ? thanks in advance.

Do you still have PS7 available to check one of those files?

In case it’s some other format which has accidentally been renamed with a ..psd extension, you can use IrfanView (assuming you’re using Windows) to open one – IV will tell you what the extension should be.

Finally, can you save and then open .psd files using PS CS4?

Andrew

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:02:36 +0200, joel tenzin wrote:

Ps Cs4 tells me " can’t open this file, this is not a psd file". From my DD or from my CDrom. Those are psd files I made with Ps 7, with not much layers, not larges ones. tried to rename the extension, copy… unseccessefull. any ideas how to recover them ? thanks in advance.

put one on a server and see if anyone else can open it.
—
Mike Russell – http://www.curvemeister.com

"joel tenzin" wrote:

Ps Cs4 tells me " can’t open this file, this is not a psd file". From my DD or from my CDrom. Those are psd files I made with Ps 7, with not much layers, not larges ones. tried to rename the extension, copy… unseccessefull. any ideas how to recover them ? thanks in advance.

If CS4 detects it ain’t PSD then it will refuse to open. There are few options you can try.

– Load to some text or binary editor then try to find out exactly what the real format is, then rename the extsnsion to the original extension else Photoshop won’t open the file with wrong extension.

– Open it with just about any Graphic *viewer* then save to JPG or whatever format you wish. Then Photoshop should open it.

"joel tenzin" wrote in message

Ps Cs4 tells me " can’t open this file, this is not a psd file". From my DD or from my CDrom. Those are psd files I made with Ps 7, with not much layers, not larges ones. tried to rename the extension, copy… unseccessefull. any ideas how to recover them ? thanks in advance.

You could try opening it with The G.I.M.P. (heresy!); it’s generally very good at opening unidentified or problem files. If it is a .PSD, you should be able to then re-save it with your layers intact.

"Jacob" wrote:

"joel tenzin" wrote in message

Ps Cs4 tells me " can’t open this file, this is not a psd file". From my DD or from my CDrom. Those are psd files I made with Ps 7, with not much layers, not larges ones. tried to rename the extension, copy… unseccessefull. any ideas how to recover them ? thanks in advance.

You could try opening it with The G.I.M.P. (heresy!); it’s generally very good at opening unidentified or problem files. If it is a .PSD, you should be able to then re-save it with your layers intact.

`I dunno, but it sounds like you need to know more about Photoshop before telling the dead user to try GIMP. And it GIMP can open the faked PSD then I don’t know if I can trust it.

"Joe" wrote in message

"Jacob" wrote:

"joel tenzin" wrote in message

Ps Cs4 tells me " can’t open this file, this is not a psd file". From my
DD or from my CDrom. Those are psd files I made with Ps 7, with not much
layers, not larges ones. tried to rename the extension, copy… unseccessefull. any ideas how to recover them ? thanks in advance.

You could try opening it with The G.I.M.P. (heresy!); it’s generally very good at opening unidentified or problem files. If it is a .PSD, you should
be able to then re-save it with your layers intact.

`I dunno, but it sounds like you need to know more about Photoshop before telling the dead user to try GIMP. And it GIMP can open the faked PSD then
I don’t know if I can trust it.

say what?

/ignore Joe

GIMP is legit and free

"Kabuki" wrote:

"Joe" wrote in message

"Jacob" wrote:

"joel tenzin" wrote in message

Ps Cs4 tells me " can’t open this file, this is not a psd file". From my
DD or from my CDrom. Those are psd files I made with Ps 7, with not much
layers, not larges ones. tried to rename the extension, copy… unseccessefull. any ideas how to recover them ? thanks in advance.

You could try opening it with The G.I.M.P. (heresy!); it’s generally very good at opening unidentified or problem files. If it is a .PSD, you should
be able to then re-save it with your layers intact.

`I dunno, but it sounds like you need to know more about Photoshop before telling the dead user to try GIMP. And it GIMP can open the faked PSD then
I don’t know if I can trust it.

say what?

I said "I dunno, but it sounds like you need to know more about Photoshop before telling the dead user to try GIMP. And it GIMP can open the faked PSD then I don’t know if I can trust it."

/ignore Joe

GIMP is legit and free

I didn’t say GIMP ain’t legid and fee, did I?

"Joe" wrote in message

"Kabuki" wrote:

"Joe" wrote in message

"Jacob" wrote:

"joel tenzin" wrote in message

Ps Cs4 tells me " can’t open this file, this is not a psd file". From
my
DD or from my CDrom. Those are psd files I made with Ps 7, with not much
layers, not larges ones. tried to rename the extension, copy… unseccessefull. any ideas how to recover them ? thanks in advance.

You could try opening it with The G.I.M.P. (heresy!); it’s generally very
good at opening unidentified or problem files. If it is a .PSD, you should
be able to then re-save it with your layers intact.

`I dunno, but it sounds like you need to know more about Photoshop before
telling the dead user to try GIMP. And it GIMP can open the faked PSD then
I don’t know if I can trust it.

say what?

I said "I dunno, but it sounds like you need to know more about Photoshop before telling the dead user to try GIMP. And it GIMP can open the faked PSD then I don’t know if I can trust it."

/ignore Joe

GIMP is legit and free

I didn’t say GIMP ain’t legid and fee, did I?

It doesn’t seem to matter now anyway, since the OP has vanished, but I did solve a very similar problem using G.I.M.P. Had a bunch of Photoshop 7 files originally created and saved in PS7 – Windows ME (yes, really), then moved through different RH, BSD and SUSE machines over the years. Ended up desperately needing to re-use some of them, and CS2 wanted nothing to do with it. I went and re-installed PS7, just to open these files. It didn’t want them either. The G.I.M.P. saved my bacon that day, as un-intuitive and useless for print as it is.

"Jacob" wrote:

telling the dead user to try GIMP. And it GIMP can open the faked PSD then
I don’t know if I can trust it.

say what?

I said "I dunno, but it sounds like you need to know more about Photoshop before telling the dead user to try GIMP. And it GIMP can open the faked PSD then I don’t know if I can trust it."

/ignore Joe

GIMP is legit and free

I didn’t say GIMP ain’t legid and fee, did I?

It doesn’t seem to matter now anyway, since the OP has vanished, but I did solve a very similar problem using G.I.M.P. Had a bunch of Photoshop 7 files originally created and saved in PS7 – Windows ME (yes, really), then moved through different RH, BSD and SUSE machines over the years. Ended up desperately needing to re-use some of them, and CS2 wanted nothing to do with it. I went and re-installed PS7, just to open these files. It didn’t want them either. The G.I.M.P. saved my bacon that day, as un-intuitive and useless for print as it is.

You seems to get the wrong question then gave the wrong answer. It doesn’t matter what kind of PSD the file may be, but the question is *if* it’s the real PSD or renamed to PSD.

And if GIMP can open the renamed format then it’s more like a Graphic Viewer than graphic retoucher/editor. And you don’t seem to get this part.

On Aug 7, 12:13 pm, "Jacob" wrote:

"Joe" wrote in message

"Kabuki" wrote:

"Joe" wrote in message

"Jacob" wrote:

"joel tenzin" wrote in message

Ps Cs4 tells me " can’t open this file, this is not a psd file". From
my
DD or from my CDrom. Those are psd files I made with Ps 7, with not much
layers, not larges ones.  tried to rename the extension, copy…. unseccessefull. any ideas how to recover them ? thanks in advance..

You could try opening it with The G.I.M.P. (heresy!); it’s generally very
good at opening unidentified or problem files. If it is a .PSD, you should
be able to then re-save it with your layers intact.

`I dunno, but it sounds like you need to know more about Photoshop before
telling the dead user to try GIMP.  And it GIMP can open the faked PSD then
I don’t know if I can trust it.

say what?

I said "I dunno, but it sounds like you need to know more about Photoshop before telling the dead user to try GIMP.  And it GIMP can open the faked PSD  then I don’t know if I can trust it."

/ignore Joe

GIMP is legit and free

I didn’t say GIMP ain’t legid and fee, did I?

It doesn’t seem to matter now anyway, since the OP has vanished, but I did solve a very similar problem using G.I.M.P. Had a bunch of Photoshop 7 files originally created and saved in PS7 – Windows ME (yes, really), then moved through different RH, BSD and SUSE machines over the years. Ended up desperately needing to re-use some of them, and CS2 wanted nothing to do with it. I went and re-installed PS7, just to open these files. It didn’t want them either. The G.I.M.P. saved my bacon that day, as un-intuitive and useless for print as it is.

You could also try my PSD Extract/Recovery plugin:
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/#psdrecover

toby wrote:

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You could also try my PSD Extract/Recovery plugin:
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/#psdrecover

And some of us are trying to say it’s very possible that the file with PSD extension may not be the real .PSD but someone renamed other extension to ..PSD and Photoshop may support many formats *but* it won’t open the file with wrong extension.

*Because* Photoshop is a graphic editor/retoucher *not* a graphic viewer, and that’s why I mentioned GIMP and other *true* graphic editor should do the same.

It’s very possible that most graphic viewers can read the wrong extension then be able to convert or save to different format. And since the newer ACDSee now can do some modification so it may be able to read the wrong extension, but it’s a graphic viewer originally, now with option to do some basic modification so it may not follow the rule of professional program.

On Aug 13, 7:52 am, Joe wrote:

toby wrote:

<snip>

You could also try my PSD Extract/Recovery plugin:
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/#psdrecover

        And some of us are trying to say it’s very possible that the file with PSD extension may not be the real .PSD but someone renamed other extension to .PSD and Photoshop may support many formats *but* it won’t open the file with wrong extension.

        *Because* Photoshop is a graphic editor/retoucher *not* a graphic viewer, and that’s why I mentioned GIMP and other *true* graphic editor should do the same.

        It’s very possible that most graphic viewers can read the wrong extension then be able to convert or save to different format.  And since the newer ACDSee now can do some modification so it may be able to read the wrong extension, but it’s a graphic viewer originally, now with option to do some basic modification so it may not follow the rule of professional program.

Of course. Any program that actually sniffs the file and ignores the extension will open it and thereby the user will learn nothing about its true nature. But not much more can be usefully written on this topic if the foregoing has had no effect.

toby wrote:

On Aug 13, 7:52 am, Joe wrote:

toby wrote:

<snip>

You could also try my PSD Extract/Recovery plugin:
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/#psdrecover

        And some of us are trying to say it’s very possible that the file with PSD extension may not be the real .PSD but someone renamed other extension to .PSD and Photoshop may support many formats *but* it won’t open the file with wrong extension.

        *Because* Photoshop is a graphic editor/retoucher *not* a graphic viewer, and that’s why I mentioned GIMP and other *true* graphic editor should do the same.

        It’s very possible that most graphic viewers can read the wrong extension then be able to convert or save to different format.  And since the newer ACDSee now can do some modification so it may be able to read the wrong extension, but it’s a graphic viewer originally, now with option to do some basic modification so it may not follow the rule of professional program.

Of course. Any program that actually sniffs the file and ignores the extension will open it and thereby the user will learn nothing about its true nature. But not much more can be usefully written on this topic if the foregoing has had no effect.

Just for displaying then it may not have much or any effect, but for editing then there may be more/less effect.

Example, there is some difference between bitmap and vector, regular graphic format vs cad format, special format with layers/extra info/16-bit or higher vs 8-bit

And I guess that is one of the reasons why Photoshop and most if not all professional graphic editors refuse to open a graphic file with wrong extension, when most if not all graphic viewers and some low-end graphic editors don’t care.

And that’s the reason why some other members suggested to open the wrong PSD with some graphic viewer then save as JPG, TIFF, BMP or whatever the dead OP asked.

And we have a similar with other member who askes about the SIZE difference after saved using auto-level. Some has tried to give some clue but the OP is still shooting in the dark.