blackxacto Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 (edited) I've been keeping backups of work I created w CS5, until this week I am told they can no longer be opened by Photoshop later versions. Can Affinity somehow open them? No luck so far. What is the point of backing up my work if after two years nothing is compatible w it? I have a ton of work I created and now, no way to open it. I can't get Affinity Photo to open any documents I created in Affinity Photo recently. Does backing these Affinity Photo documents into iCloud, strip them of identities they need to reopen in Affinity Photo, because even Affinity Photo documents will not open now. Edited April 13, 2020 by blackxacto Additional opening failures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Morning, can you upload a CS5 file and I’ll see if it opens in Adobe Photoshop CC 2020. As for opening files from cloud, I have no issues, I opened a file from 2017 fine. Have you tried exporting the PSD files to PDF instead and attempting to open them own Affinity Photo? Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackxacto Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 (edited) Here are typical files from my backups that refuse to open saying: they are not recognized as Affinity or Photoshop docs. Can anyone open them? The New Yorker Salinger.psd 1987.afphoto Edited April 13, 2020 by blackxacto did not know if the files made it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmrecs01 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 @blackxacto Both the attachments are less than 180 bytes in size so are not going to be openable by any image software, I suspect. Are they actually "links" to the actual files? Jeff Quote Win 10 Pro, i7 6700K, 32Gb RAM, NVidia GTX1660 Ti and Intel HD530 Graphics Long-time user of Serif products, chiefly PagePlus and PhotoPlus, but also WebPlus, CraftArtistProfessional and DrawPlus. Delighted to be using Affinity Designer, Photo, and now Publisher, version 1 and now version 2. iPad Pro (12.9") (iOS 17.4) running Affinity Photo and Designer version 1 and all three version 2 apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackxacto Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 Good grief, you are right. I don't know what has happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderings Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Do you no longer have access to CS5 or you are using Adobe CC and these are just files you want to have access to if want? If you have access to Adobe CC you could try installing Photoshop 20.9 which is the previous version and open all your files there and resave them, or keep that version of Photoshop file installed. One way or another though you are going to have issues and the best solution is probably reserving them with a newer version of Photoshop to maintain compatibility. CS5 is pretty ancient now, 10 year old software, so you cannot expect support forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackxacto Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 Somewhere, back aways, I lost all the data in the files. The files are not aliases, but they are only avg 160 bytes large now. I have no idea how this happened. But the clue I missed is that the files lost the icon image of the file and assumed the generic icon of either app. But I don't know why this has happened OR WHY? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmrecs01 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 @blackxacto 23 minutes ago, blackxacto said: Somewhere, back aways, I lost all the data in the files What a disaster for you! I cant even begin to imagine how you must be feeling to lose all those files and years of work. Is it literally every file? I assume, from something you wrote earlier, that they were stored on iCloud? Or have I misunderstood? You say what you are left with are not aliases, but could they originally have been "links" to the actual files which are now "missing"/have been somehow "(re)moved"? If the latter, is there anywhere else at all in your file storage system where these files might possibly be? BTW, is this on Windows or Mac? Jeff Quote Win 10 Pro, i7 6700K, 32Gb RAM, NVidia GTX1660 Ti and Intel HD530 Graphics Long-time user of Serif products, chiefly PagePlus and PhotoPlus, but also WebPlus, CraftArtistProfessional and DrawPlus. Delighted to be using Affinity Designer, Photo, and now Publisher, version 1 and now version 2. iPad Pro (12.9") (iOS 17.4) running Affinity Photo and Designer version 1 and all three version 2 apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackxacto Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 This is on a 19,1 iMac, Catalina 10.15.4 I estimate 80 to 90% are these now 160 byte files. They are not links, or aliases. They are the files I have continued to backup for several years now. They show generic icons. The only clue I will know for the future is that maybe, if the file loses its image icon for the generic, its gone. How do I know if the data is ever lost on new work, the only clue I guess is the generic icon. I do not know when or why this happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderings Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 On 4/13/2020 at 12:37 PM, blackxacto said: This is on a 19,1 iMac, Catalina 10.15.4 I estimate 80 to 90% are these now 160 byte files. They are not links, or aliases. They are the files I have continued to backup for several years now. They show generic icons. The only clue I will know for the future is that maybe, if the file loses its image icon for the generic, its gone. How do I know if the data is ever lost on new work, the only clue I guess is the generic icon. I do not know when or why this happened. As you are running Catalina you will run into more problems as the OS only runs 64 bit applications. Photoshop CS6 should run as I believe that was the first 64 bit version, but previous versions will not run as they are 32bit. Still should not change files though. Have these files been backed up anywhere? Corruption can happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackxacto Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 I backup on three devices plus time machine, none of the devices have the full documents. All are 160+-bytes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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