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Subject: [Leica] Strange Photoshop CS / CS2 compatibility issue
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Wed Jan 10 14:24:04 2007
References: <45A53190.7020208@nathanfoto.com> <20070110191621.EF78E2FCA5@donald.hostspirit.ch>

That's why I keep CS2 on both my Mac and PC computers. I don't find the 
upgrade price that egregious.

What the heck is a PSB file?

Jim


Didier Ludwig wrote:

> Nathan
> 
> Restricting the backward compatibility to force the people to upgrade is 
> an old, dirty marketing trick of the whole software industry (yawn). 
> Welcome to the club of the notoriously constrained users!
> 
> Sometimes they leave a small, hidden hole to escape the problem; like 
> Steve says, try to change your file compatibility, it could help. 
> 
> Otherwise: ~u~p~g~r~a~d~e~ PS on your PC.... :-)
> 
> Didier
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>I had a weird issue the other day, which I hope some of the Photoshop 
>>experts here can explain.
>>
>>I use PS CS on my desktop PC at home (Windows XP). Until recently I also 
>>used PS CS on my Powerbook, and was always able to move PSD files 
>>seamlessly between the two computers. But recently I upgraded my Apple 
>>Photoshop to CS2. This is what I used to process all the images I made 
>>during the trip to Poland. When I came home, I transferred the files from 
>>the Powerbook to the desktop. And here comes the strange part: some of the 
>>PSD files I saved in PS CS2 on the Apple will not open in PS CS on the PC. 
>>Now, if this were the case with ALL of them, then I would simply conclude 
>>that the PSD files simply are not backward compatible. But it seems 
>>completely random; only about 10-20% of the images are affected, and there 
>>is no systematic difference between the images that will open on the PC 
>>and those that will not. The problem affects only PSD files; TIFF files 
>>that I created in PS CS2 open in PS CS with no problem, 100% of the time.
>>
>>Does anyone have an idea why this might be happening? Is it a 
>>compatibility issue between OSX and Windows, between CS and CS2, or a 
>>combination of the two?
>>
>>TIA,
>>Nathan
> 
> 
> 
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In reply to: Message from nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Strange Photoshop CS / CS2 compatibility issue)
Message from leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Strange Photoshop CS / CS2 compatibility issue)