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 06/25/2007 11:13:38 PM · #1

Any of you computer geeks have a way to help me out of this one?

I was playing with a nice big multi-layered SciFi file on CS3 when the power went out. It just now came back on, several hours later. When I went back to get my file I get the message: Wrong kind of document - cannot open

Windows Explorer tells me this is how the file is now listed:

nameIMG_0949.SiFiMaybe
size 122,962 KB
type File
date6/25/07 4:48pm

It doesn't have the .psd suffix and has a different symbol in front of it, rather than the usual dark blue PSD one.

Anybody got any ideas on how I can get this file back?
 06/25/2007 11:21:56 PM · #2
Maybe just rename it with .psd at the end?
 06/25/2007 11:22:34 PM · #3
Just now it came back? Wow, only went out for about 3 minutes here.
 06/25/2007 11:24:14 PM · #4
Originally posted by alanfreed:
Maybe just rename it with .psd at the end?


Yeah. It looks like all she did was change the extension from psd to "SiFiMaybe"

Right click, rename, add ".psd" to the end.
 06/25/2007 11:29:17 PM · #5
alanfreed you're a blooming genius. Renaming did the trick. It came back in all its glory!

Thanks! And to chimericvisions for confirming the diagnosis.

And yes, technoshroom you folks in the southern bit of the San Francisco area had the good vibes this time.
 06/25/2007 11:36:44 PM · #6
I can see I'm late to this party, but I want to be a genius too, like Mr. Freed, so bear with me:

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Not to worry, Alice! Just right-click on the file and rename it to (filename).psd and you'll be back in business.

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There, that's better! (wink)

R.
 06/25/2007 11:46:27 PM · #7
Originally posted by sfalice:
alanfreed you're a blooming genius. Renaming did the trick. It came back in all its glory!

Thanks! And to chimericvisions for confirming the diagnosis.

And yes, technoshroom you folks in the southern bit of the San Francisco area had the good vibes this time.


To avoid this and other wonderful weirdness the next time...... go out and buy yourself a un-interuptible power supply (UPS) to run your computer and monitor and any external hard drives with. A good one will cost 100 - 150 US. I used computers for 25 years before I got one. I took a power hit and lost a piece of hardware that was dear, cost wise. I'd never in that 25 years run a UPS. Now I recommend them to anyone who asks. Cheap insurance, both hardware and software.
06/26/2007 12:00:01 AM · #8
Awwww, Bear_Music, you've always been a genius in my book.

And fir3bird I always like to avoid 'wonderful weirdness' on my computer that I didn't authorize. I shall check out a UPS ASAP.
 06/26/2007 12:14:03 AM · #9
<=== would have guessed the same thing. Can I be a genius too?
06/26/2007 12:42:11 AM · #10
Golly darn, fotomann_forever, sure you can.
:-))
 06/26/2007 12:43:01 AM · #11
w00t!
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