Will anything open or repair these image files?

[Londoner]

Hi,

I have had a rather peculiar experience with a whole bunch of my files and I am worried they may have become corrupted or something.

I have a whole bunch of scanned images on my second hard drive. All previously able to be opened in photoshop.

It seems I cannot open a load of them - I have had no problem with the HD, and checked its health recently and it was fine. Usually, photoshop will open just about anything but it doesn't 'recognise' these files - there seems to be no particular reason, since some files are fine and others aren't.

Any ideas how I could access these files or are they lost?

Thanks for reading.

[EzyStvy]

Right click on one for the files and select Open With. Then select Photo Shop and see what happens. If it works, you can repeat the process and select the "always use this program."

[Londoner]

Hi,

thanks for the psot - but I tried that and it doesn't work. Also tried opening from within photoshop. Nothing so far.

Regards.

[EzyStvy]

What is the file extension of these files?

[Londoner]

.tif and .psd and .eps

I just tried to open one of the psd files and photoshop replies with the answer:

Xcould not complete your request because it is not a valid Photoshop document.

The .eps files try to open in illustrator - although they are photoshop files with an .eps extension. When I try to open them in pshop I get:

XCould not complete your request because the parser module cannot parse the file.

Just tried to open a .tif file and pshop tells me:

XCould not complete your request because it is not the right kind of document.

I'm guessing corruption although there is no good reason for it. HD is fine and is merely used for storage. If so is there any way of regaining access to these images - there are alot of them and it would take alot of work to replace them - some I cannot replace atall.

Regards.

[glc]

Try the free Irfanview. It will open .tif and .psd directly and .eps with a plugin.

Have you tried copying the files to the main drive and opening them from there?

[Panama Red]

Just an idea to determine whether the .tif files are corrupted or not. Go to the Control Panel>Folder Options>File Types tab>scroll down to .tif files. Change the default viewer to the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Or just right click the .tif file you wish to open and select open with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. If this works, you may have a problem with PS rather than file corruption.

edit: glc was posting while I was typing. I like his idea even better. Never gave Irfanview a thought.