Resolve Photoshop Error Cannot Save File Larger than 2GB

I have a PSD file on which I’ve been working on for many months. This week I got a new computer; when I open this PSD file on my new system, I am not able to save it as a PSD. The file size according to Windows Explorer is 600MB, wWhereas in Photoshop CC’s the document size displayed at the bottom of the document Window is 288.4M/1.77GB. Yet when I try to save this PSD file on my new computer, I get this error: “Error Photoshop cannot save PSD file more than 2GB”.

I have been working on this document for the last several months on my old computer; I didn’t have a problem in saving it. But now on my new computer, I am unable to save this PSD file. I had copied all of my preferences files from the old computer to the new and I don’t see any settings that are different between two computers. Can anyone please help me out in this situation? I will be thankful to them.

If you do a lot of Photoshop image manipulation on large high-resolution images, you may eventually run into the 2GB limit for saving Photoshop files. This is especially true if you like to work with a lot of layers. While saving such huge Photoshop files you may encounter error as mentioned above.

Adobe’s new Large Document Format (PSB) adds support for Photoshop documents larger than 2GB. The document you save in this way cannot be opened in earlier versions of Photoshop, but they can be opened in latest version of Photoshop CS and above versions. In order to use the Large Document Format option, you’ll have to open Photoshop’s file handling preferences and turn the feature on. Once the option is activated in preferences, the Large Document Format becomes an option in your standard Photoshop save dialog box.

Photoshop PSD file may have compatibility issues, i.e. opening PSD file created using the latest version of Adobe Photoshop tool in earlier Photoshop version can damage PSD file and make your months of work worthless. If you come across these types of situations with your PSD file, then use efficient third party repair application to fix these errors.

Software to repair PSD file error:

Yodot PSD Repair is well-known Photoshop file repair software, which helps you to fix error like Photoshop cannot save file more than 2GB. This PSD repair software is developed with most powerful algorithms to fix severely damaged or corrupted PSD and PDD files. This software has the capability to fix PSD file that has different color modes like Bitmap, Gray-scale, Indexed color, RGB color, CMYK color and Lab color. This tool can easily fix RLE compressed PSD files that are created by different Adobe Photoshop applications. This software is preferred by most of the Photoshop user due to its user friendly interface and it is supported on both Windows and Mac operating systems.

Steps to fix error Photoshop cannot save file more than 2GB:

• Download and install Yodot PSD Repair on your Windows operating system
• Follow the onscreen procedure provided for you to run and repair Photoshop PSD files
• Click on “Browse” option to select the path of the PSD file that is to be repaired
• After selecting the particular PSD file, click on “Repair” option and you can see the progress bar on next window
• Fixing of PSD file takes only few minutes and displays the repaired PSD file with different layers and masks of the respective PSD file
• You can also view fixed Photoshop files by using “Preview” option present on the tool
• Then you can save the repaired Photoshop PSD files to your preferred location on Windows PC

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