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I can not open my PSD file
It is about 180MB
Never had a problem and then all of a sudden "There was a problem reading the layer data. Read the composite data instead?"
Help What do I do!?
Hi Gatostreet,
Please refer this discussion There was a problem reading the layer data. Read the composite data instead? and let us know if that helps.
Thanks,
Akash
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Hi Gatostreet,
Please refer this discussion There was a problem reading the layer data. Read the composite data instead? and let us know if that helps.
Thanks,
Akash
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clean cache and try again
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This isn't a solution to a problem you should fix. Every time this question gets asked an Adobe support person directs us to your answer as if that is actually of any use. Fix the damn problem and issue an apology for thousand of hours of labor your customers have LOST.
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In all the years I've used Photoshop daily (which is many) I've never had a corrupt PSD - not even once. Maybe I've been lucky, but I also believe in creating my own luck. I always save to a local hard drive - never to a network or removable drive. Files can be copied to the network later if required. This is standard advice from Adobe. https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/kb/networks-removable-media-photoshop.html
I also save incrementally (Filename001.psd, Filename002.psd etc). This is mainly to protect against errors on my part but would equally protect against a corrupt file if it happened.
I really do feel for those with corrupt files, who have lost work, but the impact should be no worse than opening the previous incremental file.
Dave
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Hi Weston, try freeing up storage space and closing the PSD files you are not using.
Basically, the file needs enough RAM to read the layers.
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I know this was posted yers ago, but for anyone who may still run into this issue upon opening a file. Something to try that may fix it is changing the scratch disk settings to use a different drive e.g. C/Drive to D/Drive etc. It can pop up with an error reading a layer if the scratch disk is full.
Can change this by going to:
Edit/ Preferences/ Scratch Disk
This will show which disk it is starting up on and which ones are avalable for it to also pull from.
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Low scratch disk space will just stop Photoshop in its tracks. It won't start corrupting files - it just stops working altogether.
If you get scratch disk full messages on the system drive, you have much bigger problems than Photoshop! Then you're so low on space that your whole machine may freeze up at any moment.