???"File is not readable"???

My WORKING SOLUTION !!

Just clean-up Temp directory on WINDOWS (C:\users\....\AppData\Local\Temp) 64GB fried and problem solved... I do not have any idea how.

Hello guys and girls,

I had the exact same problem, "The file is not readable."…  Very frustrating and annoying to say the least…

My solution was increasing the size of my scratch disk… The original size of my scratch disk was 4.25 GB, you'd think that was big enough… Apparently it wasn't, I increased it to  7.5 GB.

For now, I don't have any problems opening or working with .AI files…

Hopefully this, will help a few of you out there.

Hoping someone may find this useful, I got this error "File not readable" and the fix for me was really simple: I was running out of space on my hard drive, when I made some room and opened the file no problem.

my solution - more a workaround like for win/cs4:

1. close illustrator

2. temporary rename the image folder OR rename your image

3. open illustrator

4. hit "ignore"  missing file paths

5. rename your folder or images to the old name

6. jump back to illustrator

7. now illustrator should automatically check the old file paths and asks you to update - klick yes

now everything should be fine again.

hope this helps

christian

Our issue at work turned out to be the upgrade to the new Pantone Plus library. It causes ALOT of problems. The thing to do is install it but then reinstall the OLD library as the default and have the Plus library somewhere else where you can access it when you need to.

Did I get a raise for solving this problem that no one else in the entire company could solve? No.

Same issue, just wanted to pile on the discussion.  Breaking links to the files seemed to work as an emergency fix, but this is really a pain.

CS5, Windows 7, plenty o RAM and CPU ....  dealing with some large files for a vehicle wrap, but nothing truly crazy.

Hi All!

I've found my self with the same problem, since yesterday and not before! Couldn't open any small tiff RGB or Cmyk, but JPG was allright.

When reading this forum with complicated solutions, suddenly I've remebered one option wich I've changed yesterday, wich is... SCRATCH DISKS options! Yes,

I've changed the S.Disk from Startup to another fisical hardisk wich I have in my Pc. Now I've returned to my original configuration and everything is back to normal again. Hope this could help you all.

Another thing. In Photoshop, when I've done the same, the photoshop wouldn't start. Why? I don't know...

DON'T MESS WITH SCRATCH DISKS 

Adobe CS4, Win 7 64bits, Two hard drives, 4 partitions

I dont know if this is the solution ( in fact I read the solution from Adobe but it's so confuse) . Here is mine :

- Deleted the linked file or move it to another folder.

-  Restart Illustrator , open ur file , ignore the box , seperate ur file to smaller document and replace the missing file.

Hope it works for u

Hello people,

I have been experiencing the same problem for a long time and I have discovered a workarround that works for me.

I simply start illustrator as administrator and everything works, for me at least.

I'm using Windows 7 64bit, Illustrator cs5 latest update, C2D 2,5ghz, 2gb ram

Hope this helps.

From my perpective this problem has cropped up from CS4, well i deal with many agencies who look like they're hiring people from the art schools who got the lowest score in designing. Well the problem occurs when i have EPS files that exceed the 200mb mark [ in some cases i had file sizes exceeding the 2gb mark, sadly ] and this saps illustrator's ram allocation, which leads to the problem. Well for one thing i guess the team developing illustrator have not really taken into consideration that now that we have moved to 64bit systems we do need illustrator to be able to juggle the ram and memory more effectively. So in finishing i say like me we all have to soldier on, until someone wakes up and sorts out this problem.