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Photoshop Documents Won't Open

If you’re like me and still using an older version of Photoshop (in my case v7), because the new versions are just fluff or for some other reason, you might come across this: “Could not open ‘filename-goes-here.psd’ because it’s not a valid Photoshop document”.

Turns out that the problem is there’s some random characters, about 128 of them, before the 8BPS token that identifies the file as a valid Photoshop document. If you delete these extra characters in either a Hex Editor, or a text editor that supports binary files (e.g. EditPlus) so the first four characters are 8BPS, the document will open fine.

This entry was posted on Monday, May 15th, 2006 at 10:05 am and is filed under Computing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “Photoshop Documents Won't Open”

  1. Bea says:
    January 5, 2007 at 7:30 am

    Thank you for posting this, it’s exactly what my problem is. However, the problem document doesn’t even seem to have “8BPS” in it anywhere. I’ll have to keep working on this.
    Thanks anywho,
    Bea

  2. Bea says:
    January 5, 2007 at 7:32 am

    I loved Fraggle Rock. Wish I could see it again!

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