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bkorb
Inspiring
October 15, 2019
Question

Photoshop is saving PSBs and TIFFs with the wrong suffix in Catalina

  • October 15, 2019
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This is the output of the UNIX "file(1)" command on a panorama shot saved in "large file format":

 

2019-10-11-06-49-07.tif: Adobe Photoshop Image (PSB), ...

When I loaded the *.tif file back up, Ps understood it to be a PSB file. OK. Fine. I brought the image down to one flattened layer and saved it as a TIFF:

2019-10-11-06-49-07.psb: TIFF image data, big-endian, ...

 

Lightroom, of course, won't even glance at something called, "xxx.psb" and unsurprisingly it didn't grok the .tif file either.


Way clever, Adobe. I don't happen to want the PSB file, so I will delete the *.tif file and rename the *.psb to be *.tif. I am using the latest and greatest update to Photoshop on a Mac running whatever last week's release of OS/X was called.

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PECourtejoie
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 15, 2019

I edited the thread title to add Catalina, for clarity

bkorb
bkorbAuthor
Inspiring
October 22, 2019

The clarity I would really like is knowing how in heck file name suffixes can get messed up like that. How could removing 32 bit interfaces cause such confusion? It's confusing. Please tell the developers that inquiring minds would really like to know. 🙂

davescm
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 15, 2019

See here for known issues on Mac Catalina including the file extension issue
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/photoshop-and-macos-catalina.html

Dave

bkorb
bkorbAuthor
Inspiring
October 15, 2019

Contrary to what that page says, when you save as a large document with a .tif extension, Photoshop will open it just fine. Lightroom is finicky about the file name extension tho.

Legend
October 15, 2019
Anyway, it’s an issue for early adopters of Catalina. If you ha ent upgraded yet, WAIT. There are worse issues on the bleeding edge.