I have a .psd-document created in PhotoShop 6.0.1 with several layers and text. The document was created in OS9.2.2
Now I'm using PhotoShop 7 in OSX 10.3.3. The .psd-document will not open!
The document itself is compressed in a OS9 .sea (Aladdin self-extracting document). De-compressing these documents (the .psd-document and two .tif-pictures) leaves them in a folder. The psd-document and the tif-picture contains several text-layers and other layers.
Do you have any idea what to do to get to these documents?
For the record, I use a PowerBook G4 12", 867 MHz, 640 RAM 60GB HD
-Erling S
#1
What methods of opening have you tried?
What do you see if you do Get Info on the files as fafr as what you can do (Read, Write, etc.)?
#2
I've tried opening the documents with choosing "Open" from Photoshop, and I've tried double-clicking them in Finder.
Both results in the same:
Error message:
"There was a problem reading the layer data. Red the composite data instead?"
and
"Couldn't open the file "<filename>.psd" because the file is not compatible with this version of Photoshop"
In the info-window, I read:
Ownership and rights:
You can Read and Write
Details:
Owner: erling2 (my username)
Access: Read and Write
Group: Admin
Access: Read only
Others: Read only
I tried changing all this to Read and Write, but that didn't help.
Any more ideas?
I also have a tif-version of the picture. The messages I get is: "This image was generated from source data that Photoshop cannot read. That data will be discarded. Continue reading?"
and
"Could not open "<filename>.tif" because of a problem parsing the TIFF file"
Does this help?
I'm arranging to try the documents on a iMac with OS9, to see if that helps...
#3
Sounds like the files are just corrupted.
#4
That was what I was afraid of.
I will try one last thing:
Run a Norton Disk Doctor check on the harddisk. Maybe the files can be restored properly. But after that, I leave it to the trash can.
I recon then that the CD has had some difficulties burning and the files are corrupted...
Thanks for the help anyway!!
-E
#5