Parsing error

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Michael_Bilderback
Apr 27, 2005
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I am trying to open very large tif files in Photoshop 7.0, some over 1gb, and I am getting a "Could not open xxxx.tif because of a problem parsing the file" error. The system has 2gb of memory and a 4gb swap/scratch file. I know it is not an incorrect extension problem because all we work with is tifs. I have heard that Photoshop 7.0 has a line limitation of 32750. Could this be the problem and if so does anyone know if there is a fix or workaround. Thanks.

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Rene_Walling
Apr 27, 2005
PS7 is limited to 30 000 pixels

I forget the file size limit though you may have run into it. I know it used to be possible to save files that were larger than the maximum file size allowed by PS7, but then you could not reopen them.

Two possible workarounds: get CS (actually CS2 now) or try Irfanview (and to be honest, I have no idea if it will work on very large files, but I know it’s saved more than its share of files)
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Chris_Cox
Apr 27, 2005
File size limit was 2 Gig.

But a parsing error is normally just that – an error in the TIFF file that prevents it from being parsed correctly.
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Rbanks
Apr 28, 2005
open in PS7, save as .psd, then open in CS, or CS2

or, open in another app, copy>paste into a new PS image

you have(possibly mild) file corruption

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