TIFs disappearing while being editted

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Brandi Bramlett
Jun 1, 2007
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I don’t necessarily believe this is Photoshops fault… but I will be editing a tif and when I go to save it the file has disappeared. It gets removed somehow. It’s troublesome because I have to Save As to restore it, but I’m worried I may accidentally close without saving and it will be gone forever.

I drag the image to Photoshop from an open folder, do my editing, and hit Ctrl+S. It tells me it cannot save it because the file is locked (which it isn’t) and when I check the folder it’s gone. It’s on a local drive and no else is accessing it.

My second thought beyond Photoshop is something on my computer is trying to access it or move it while I have it open, but there’s nothing that appears to be running while I edit the file. Any thoughts on this?

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Phil_Scarsbrook
Jun 2, 2007
Brandi,
I have had the same problem with large layered tif files (300-400 megs. I would open them by double-clicking, work on them and when I try to save and get the same "locked" error message. When I went to check properties of the file it was gone! I have started saving these files as psds and had no further problems. These are new files (not copied from a cd) and have only resided on my local HD. I wrote it off as a quirk (bug) in CS3.

Photoshop CS3 standard
Windows XP SP2
4 gigs ram
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Brandi Bramlett
Jun 5, 2007
Yeah… It happens rarely to me so all my large files (such as composites, posters, etc.) are now InDesign files that I export as EPSs. The problem with PSDs, aside from their wonderfully smaller file size, is I dont think our printer handles the files. So I stick with TIFs. It happened to me in CS2 also. Hmmm…

Thanks for the info!

(PS *drools over the 4G of RAM* Lol. I have 2G.)
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Brandi Bramlett
Jun 13, 2007
Back to the issue. It just did it to me again. What on earth could be doing this? It’s not a large file (88MB to be exact) and the only thing I can think of is I drag and drop onto the Photoshop application to open these files.

(Why must it be so random…)

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