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12/15/2005 11:13:01 AM · #1 |
| ok, so I worked on this awesome image that took a good chunk of time to do. I saved it in a photoshop format and then closed everything down. when I came back to it and tried to open the image it gave me an error message "unexpected end of file". It is a huge file, over 500 mb. is it simply too big? Can I save it somehow? I really would like to not have to redo this image again.... |
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12/15/2005 11:14:46 AM · #2 |
| when saving large files like that your system can sometimes appear to be complete when in fact the hard drive is still crunching the file. If this was the case, you shut your system down before it fully finished. This would give you the error you got. I had the same thing happen a few weeks ago. |
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12/15/2005 11:40:21 AM · #3 |
| so does that mean I can't do anything to get it back? I really hope that is not the case. |
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12/15/2005 11:40:45 AM · #4 |
I think Alienyst hit it on the head. The operating system willl tell the application it is done, but it is still writing to disk in the background. That's done so the system is more responsive. Additionally, the hard driveis buffering internally, so even when all the information has been transferred to the drive itself, it's still being written for a (very) short time thereafter. The first issue is usually the root cause of files that don't get completely written, however.
Another possibility is that you have a hard error on the disk, so if you are sure that the write was finished before powering down, you will definitely want to run error checks on the disk drive. |
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12/15/2005 11:41:58 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by gi_joe05:
so does that mean I can't do anything to get it back? I really hope that is not the case. |
Unfortunately, that's probably the case. If the OS doesn't know where the rest of the file is, it either did not get written at all, or a drive error corrupted the information that tells the OS where to find the rest of the file (see my other post).
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