Adobe Bridge Makes Random Raw Files Unreadable Corrupt!

[djdister]

I recently allowed Adobe to update my Bridge and Photoshop versions to the latest thing, and I just noticed that random raw files (Fuji RAF) become unreadable and/or corrupted while I am looking at them in Bridge. It is so weird - I'll open Bridge to view a group of raw images, and like one out of every 20-30 of the raw files just changes from an image preview to an icon (without me even trying to open it), and then when I try to open the file (which launches Camera Raw), I get an error message that "could not open because file-format module cannot parse the file."

Even using the Windows file explorer will show me the preview but when I try to open using the Windows image viewer the same error message pops up, so whatever happened to the file extends beyond just the Adobe applications. But the problem seems to happen when previewing them in Bridge...

The file extensions don't get changed, so there is no easy or obvious reason why the file format is no longer readable.

Thoughts?

[Kino]

I hope that Bridge has not corrupted your metadata or header files!

That can be very hard to recover from without manual editing of the file headers.

Hope you have a backup of those files. It's always a good idea to never work with your originals and keep them on a drive isolated from your editing software.

If you don't have backups of the non-corrupted files, I would not access them via Bridge until you back them up.

[bdkphoto]

I recently allowed Adobe to update my Bridge and Photoshop versions to the latest thing, and I just noticed that random raw files (Fuji RAF) become unreadable and/or corrupted while I am looking at them in Bridge. It is so weird - I'll open Bridge to view a group of raw images, and like one out of every 20-30 of the raw files just changes from an image preview to an icon (without me even trying to open it), and then when I try to open the file (which launches Camera Raw), I get an error message that "could not open because file-format module cannot parse the file."

Even using the Windows file explorer will show me the preview but when I try to open using the Windows image viewer the same error message pops up, so whatever happened to the file extends beyond just the Adobe applications. But the problem seems to happen when previewing them in Bridge...

The file extensions don't get changed, so there is no easy or obvious reason why the file format is no longer readable.

Thoughts?

There's a couple of things I would try - first doublecheck the the Adobe updates for bridge, acr, PS and make sure there aren't subsequent updates that have been issued - ( I updated just recently and there were several bug fix updates issued right after the big upgrade) second - I would try to open the file directly into acr or with fujis raw converter without bridge - launch Camera raw and try to open the file directly, and do the same with the Fuji converter. Third - I would shoot a batch of test images with your camera and import as usual and see if the problem happens again with bridge ( with unimportant images ).

[Joshua Dunn]

You can download older versions of Adobe software (I keep multiple versions on my computers) and then try opening them with an older version.

-Joshua

[djdister]

I found that I had two versions of Bridge installed and thought that might be the problem, but after removing the older version of Bridge it kept happening, but again randomly and maybe 1 out of every 20 .RAF files would get corrupt and unreadable. My versions of Bridge, Photoshop and Camera Raw are all up to date, so my old school solution for now is to make all raw files READ ONLY. I figure if the application can still open it but can't modify the file, then it shouldn't be able to corrupt the file. So far, so good...

Oddly enough, Bridge did not corrupt any .JPG or .PSD files, only .RAF.

[mdarnton]

Maybe you should wipe and reinstall the application.