Photoshop says "cannot upon because file is not a valid photoshop file" but it is. What do I do?

quote: what is Bridge?

https://www.adobe.com/products/bridge.html

Bridge reads Adobe file formats and displays a preview. So in your case that may be a test, to see, if it generates the preview. My guess is that the file is crashed and not recoverable, but you should try what you can try. 

I just wanted to check back with you to see if you had any success in recovering your file? 

Michelle

opening it on gimp and google drive was a dead end (same errors more or less). The second link is free to download but it's a paid service to actually recover anything. I tried to get it to give me a preview of the file but it wouldn't do that

oops I meant blank* white page, also sorry, I just saw that message so maybe there's a lag on the forum

Did you take a look at the Recovery website information I sent? What are your thoughts on that?

I don't know any thing about bridge so I don't know how to make it "generate a preview". When I clicked on it bridge, it gave all this basic info about the file, and an option to open it. I did, and it jsut sent me to photoshop and gave met the same error message

If you have the Creative Cloud or the Photography plan you should have access to Bridge which is a type of file browser. If you install it, you can then, inside of Bridge, navigate to your image to see if you can open it from there. 

what is Bridge?

Bridge is a great suggestion!

It's probably crashed. Does Bridge generate a preview?