Photoshop 7 error "Can't save due to program error"

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February 7, 2025
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Hello all,

I love how easy Photoshop 7 is to use, more screen space than the newer versions.

Today, for the first time ever I ran into this error. Reseting the settings did nothing. Unable to save to anything else per other recommendations.

7.0

Win10

All my photos were taken today with my fairly new S24+, and not one could I open and save, lost all my work to submit my Math test within the next 2 hours!

I have had Webp Converter for awhile now, and had only used it to convert .webp files to jepgs for me to use in Photoshop 7. After the only solution that would work I saw was taking a screenshot and then opening a new file and posting, I opened Webp Converter and it has a nice jpeg to webp converter as well. I converted to .webp and then back to .jpg and now all my files work. I will continue to look into new phone jpegs to see why they are causing trouble. (A previous locked discussion was having trouble from an iPhone image and today I had an issue with a Samsung S24+, hope there is a better fix in the future).

Windows

J

JaydenAdams

Participant

I am also facing the same error with this version.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Are you familiar with Adobe ImageReady 7 included in the Photoshop 7 install?

In case there is no shortcut to it in your Start menu, the ImageReady.exe is located in

C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0

You should be able to open S24+ jpegs into ImageReady, then use File>Save As Optimized to output a jpeg file

Or you can open the unsaved jpeg directly into photoshop 7 by clicking on the Jump to Photoshop button at the bottom of the Toolbox, then you can save out as a jpeg with no error.

sample S24+ file from here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/199890361@N03/53558011463/in/album-72177720315141234

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Probably not an error caused by Photoshop 7 per se, but something in the files is not compatible with Photoshop 7.

I experimented with an S24+ image and was able to save as a tiff file from Photoshop 7

From there you can save the tiff as a jpeg.

C

ComancherAuthor

Participant

I had no issues with S7, S8, S22+ Ultra, S21+, all them I had used for years, and only the S24+ photos cannot be saved as PSD, PDF, JPG, GIF, etc. Why? The only difference is the phone. I did try as a TIFF and that worked, but I rarely work with TIFFs and that would be alot more work, the Webp Converter can do many files at once.

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