Photoshop CS4 File Type

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Chad
May 13, 2009
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When I take a totally normal GIF file and "save for web", my Mac says the file type is "Adobe Photoshop GIF File" and gives it a little Photoshop GIF icon. The file, before I opened and saved it, was of file type "Graphics Interchange Format".

This weird Photoshop association is causing me problems and it JUST started happening and I can not for the life of me figure out what has changed……

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you,
Chad

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Voivod
May 13, 2009
On Wed, 13 May 2009 01:33:16 -0700 (PDT), Chad
scribbled:

This weird Photoshop association is causing me problems and it JUST started happening and I can not for the life of me figure out what has changed……

What possible problems could it be causing you?
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John J
May 13, 2009
Chad wrote:
When I take a totally normal GIF file and "save for web", my Mac says the file type is "Adobe Photoshop GIF File" and gives it a little Photoshop GIF icon.

Single click on the GIF file.
Command-I (or click ‘get info’)
Change the ‘open with’ to Preview
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Chad
May 13, 2009
On May 13, 4:32 am, Voivod wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 01:33:16 -0700 (PDT), Chad
scribbled:

This weird Photoshop association is causing me problems and it JUST started happening and I can not for the life of me figure out what has changed……

What possible problems could it be causing you?

Thanks for the reply…. When I post the file to Amazon S3, the browser tries to download the file rather than display it. This ONLY happens when the file is this "Photoshop" type. Otherwise the browser sees it as a displayable item.
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Chad
May 13, 2009
On May 13, 7:47 am, John J wrote:
Chad wrote:
When I take a totally normal GIF file and "save for web", my Mac says the file type is "Adobe Photoshop GIF File" and gives it a little Photoshop GIF icon.  

Single click on the GIF file.
Command-I (or click ‘get info’)
Change the ‘open with’ to Preview

Thanks for the reply John.

This only changes the application that opens the file, not the file type. That is not the issue.

Chad
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Chad
May 13, 2009
On May 13, 9:31 am, Chad wrote:
On May 13, 7:47 am, John J wrote:

Chad wrote:
When I take a totally normal GIF file and "save for web", my Mac says the file type is "Adobe Photoshop GIF File" and gives it a little Photoshop GIF icon.  

Single click on the GIF file.
Command-I (or click ‘get info’)
Change the ‘open with’ to Preview

Thanks for the reply John.

This only changes the application that opens the file, not the file type.  That is not the issue.

Chad

Anybody else have a suggestion? This is VERY strange…. I feel like my Photoshop is adding some extra information but I can’t figure out what changed..

For an example of the file, go here:

http://dev.crankapps.com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/logo3.gif
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Chad
May 13, 2009
On May 13, 9:50 am, Chad wrote:
On May 13, 9:31 am, Chad wrote:

On May 13, 7:47 am, John J wrote:

Chad wrote:
When I take a totally normal GIF file and "save for web", my Mac says the file type is "Adobe Photoshop GIF File" and gives it a little Photoshop GIF icon.  

Single click on the GIF file.
Command-I (or click ‘get info’)
Change the ‘open with’ to Preview

Thanks for the reply John.

This only changes the application that opens the file, not the file type.  That is not the issue.

Chad

Anybody else have a suggestion?  This is VERY strange…. I feel like my Photoshop is adding some extra information but I can’t figure out what changed..

For an example of the file, go here:

http://dev.crankapps.com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/logo3.gif

Nevermind….. I solved the problem. Turns out the program I was using to upload the files to S3 was re-encoding the file. Photoshop indeed does add a small header file to say that it was the program that created the GIF/JPG file, but that wasn’t causing the issue.

Thanks.
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gowanoh
May 16, 2009
All problems on the Mac, software or hardware, are due to user error. The Mac is perfect in every way and it is impossible to have problems due to software or hardware error.
You have paid double what the nearly obsolete hardware in a locked down box is worth to run a proprietary Unix clone that has memory issues and no stable 64 bit program development path.
Sadly, the Mac and its software run by rules every bit as arbitrary as Windows, Linux et al and you have to learn these rules. The Mac does not read your mind and do what you want, you have to do what you want the way it will let or not let you. This is obviously better than Windows or Linux at double the cost.
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Joel
May 16, 2009
Thanks for the info but I disagree.

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