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Wrong type or wrong file?

Shaun5CA0
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Oct 06, 2020 Oct 06, 2020

Keep getting this message, can you assist?

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JJMack Community Expert
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Oct 06, 2020 Oct 06, 2020

How are you starting Photoshop. Are there and start up event setup to open a file. The message seems to indicate Photoshop tried to open a file that it does not support.

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Chuck Uebele Community Expert
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Oct 06, 2020 Oct 06, 2020

What type of file were you trying to open?

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Oct 07, 2020 Oct 07, 2020
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JJMack Community Expert
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That .RAR not a Photoshop support file type.  Is a compressed packages of files  perhaps created on a linux type system.

 

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