Hey guys, I’m desperately in need of some sophisticated technical Photoshop/Mac help. Last night I discovered that four of my image files have corrupted on my hard drive. These are files that took me more than 40 hours each of work each. I went to my six backup drives and to my horror I found that the files are corrupted on those drives also-- somehow the corruption makes it past the “verify” function of both Silverfast and Retrospect, so I have backed up the corrupted files (and copied over the good versions in the process).
I ran Norton Disk Doctor on the drive and it found no problems. The files don’t open in Photoshop-- they get all the way to the end (within a second or two of opening) and I get an error message saying there’s a disk error. A “get info” check shows that the files are still on the drive-- they are taking up the right amount of room on the drive, and the Photoshop icon is still there. I tried copying the files to a new folder and the same thing happens-- the progress bar makes it all the way to the end, and then a second or two before it should complete, it gives a disk error message.
I tried copying the corrupted file to a blank disk drive and doing a Norton Unerase, and it created a new file that it said was successful, and when I tried opening that one the same thing happened again-- it got to about 99% of the way to open, and then I got an error message saying the file could not be opened because the “color book” was missing.
Does anyone know how I can save these files? Is there a way to open the file without a “color book”, or somehow insert one, or fool Photoshop into thinking it’s there? I already tried turning off all color management in Photoshop and that didn’t help. I also tried renaming the files, and their folders, rebooting numerous times, and doing desktop rebuilds, all to no avail.
Oh, and I'm on PS 7, Mac 9.2.2.
Any help would be massively appreciated.
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