photoshop creating corrupted tiff

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January 26, 2024
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I have always worked like this, last week i did a bunch of files like these and went fine. Now i'm having trouble. I selected two dng files from lightroom and open them as layers in photoshop. And do some tweaking, flatten the image and close saving the file. When i go back to lightroom the file is corrupted, can't open, can't do anything. don't know what's going on.

mac OS 13.6.3

photoshop 25.3.1

lightroom 13.1

macOS

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D Fosse

Community Expert

If it just started, that's another indication of a hardware component starting to fail.

kuantouAuthor

Known Participant

I can understand that and have been verifying the disks which appears to be fine. But I import hundreds of photos everyday, make a lot of HDR in lightroom and never got a corrupted file. But i will keep investigating the drives.

D Fosse

Community Expert

File corruption is always, no exception, caused by failing hardware.

It can be a failing drive or bad RAM, but if you're using external drives that's a prime suspect. Never save directly to external. Replace all cables and connectors!

Saving over a network can also cause corruption. Networks are inherently risky and always potentially unstable, so that too falls under the heading of failing hardware.

You need to isolate the cause, and in the meantime, back up everything. Don't open any files, just copy everything as it is. If you already have backups, don't open them until you've found the cause.