files corrupted when saving with compatibuility mode turned off

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skip163
Apr 2, 2009
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Greetings

I have been re-saving many of my PSD files using CS3 image prosesssor with compatibility mode turned off. They have simply been saved again as PSD files into a different folder – no changes to the original PSD files. This has worked well and reduced file sizes by up to 50% (I had compatibility mode turned on previously).

of the 60 files I have processed, 3 will no longer open , I get a message that says "file will not open due to a program error."

these files have only ever been used in CS3. , they are quite large from just under 1GB to 1.5GB, however other similar large files have processed sucsessfully. I have re-tried without success.

I still have the original files so no data loss is involved.

can anyone suggest why turning compatibility mode off and saving a new copy would result in corruption/incompatibility when using the same version of photoshop.

Regards
Phil

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Buko
Apr 2, 2009
hard drive going bad?
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skip163
Apr 2, 2009
I dont think so.. i have a nvsata raid 0 hard drive setup but i did copy the problem files across to a seperate non raid HDD on the system
to test and the same thing occurred from that drive as well. it seems to occur with the same 3 files but not with others regardless of the HDD
it is working from.
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PeterK.
Apr 3, 2009
Are those 3 files over 2gb in size? There are limits to the psd format’s size, and I think 2gb might be it. If that is the case, you should save in photoshop’s large document format, .psb.

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