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mtucker508
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August 16, 2012
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Any solution for "unexpected end-of-file encountered" on CS5 and macOS 10.7.4

  • August 16, 2012
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Using Mac 10.7.4 and CS5 Extended on an Imac 27.

 

Today, working on a large file PSD suffix and Photoshop froze. and when I restarted i got "unexpected end of file " error message on the file i was working on, but on several other files also in that folder.

 

Has anyone found a solution to this? Can you rebuild or restore the file in any way?

 

The file shows on the hard drive now as 118.6 megs. The files show up in Bridge, but with small Previews.

 

 

[post is from 2012 — versions added]

 

    Correct answer station_two

    Noel Carboni wrote:

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    it brings back whatever you were working on in the last few minutes before the failure.

    That is correct, of course.  But, if I construe the OP correctly, the computer malfunction also damaged other files in the same older that were not open.

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    Catherine Singer
    Participant
    November 18, 2022

    If you happen to have the new M1 chip in your mac laptop, set your Bridge to Open in Rosetta by going into your applications folder, finding Photoshop 2023/"right click" on Info/check off Open in Rosetta.

     

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    Ahmad2255637913t7
    Participant
    October 28, 2022

    I had this problem today, then I tried to upload on photopea and it's helped.

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      Emma23976064eqz9
      Participant
      May 25, 2022

      Im very late to this, but I found a solution. Files > left click the file > then "Version history". Here I found my past saves and was able to recover the save I did before I exited photoshop, everything was intact. I don't make multiple files so this is what helped me!

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      lanied116
      Participant
      April 24, 2022

      INDEED! Thank you for saying this. I've invest way too much in Adobe over the last 15 yrs to have this much trouble THIS often with Photoshop. 

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      phébé0D4E
      Participant
      March 16, 2021

      An other solution:

      I was about to give up as nothing worked for me (even a windows back up) but i finally try to download krita and it worked!! Everything is here: all my layers! i saved as psd and succeded to open it on photoshop with everything ok!

      rajivl89065504
      rajivl89065504
      Participant
      March 8, 2021

      The best solution is download and open the PSD file in Adobe Ilustrater. Export and save the file as PSD format and now you will be able to open the corrupted PSD file in Photoshop. This worked for me.

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      Brian C5DFC
      Participant
      September 9, 2020

      After never having any luck retrieving a PSD file when this happens -- I randomly opened a file in Illustrator. And it was there! There was only one layer that was corrupted. All the rest were intact. All I had to do was save it as a PDF and then open it in photoshop. Still had some work I had to do on it afterwards, but it saved me a ton of time. 

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      MarcMav3n
      Participant
      August 13, 2020

      If you are on Windows 10, you can open the corrupted psd files using AutoDesk Sketch Pad. After being opened, you can export the file into PSD file again, and problem solved!

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      ashishraw
      Participant
      February 1, 2020

      Hello, I had also faced the same problem many times, but today I came here to find any solution that could help but all in vain. Then I started to tried open the curroupt file in all softwares one by one. Then Jackpot, the said file opened in corel photopaint and then I export my file again in PSD and you know what all the layers and colors were as previous. 🙂 🙂 

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        Daniel228901460vhq
        Participant
        January 28, 2022

        Thank you very much for pointing this method too!!! I tried the Illustrator one and the layers were gone, saw your tip and it worked for me pretty well, lost only tree layers but for the most part the file was all there. So, people lost in despair as I was, give a try on this method and don't waste any time with third party recovery software or the useless temp files.

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          Shepherd4
          Participant
          November 1, 2019

          Downloaded and ran Java for Mac OS 2017-001 installer. Solves the smart-layer error and issues with Illustrator CS6 not starting.

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