Resolve PSD Error Photoshop File Could Not be Found

“I use Photoshop graphics editing application to create required animated pictures for my clients. Recently I had created a large image in Photoshop and today when I clicked on it to open, an error message popped up saying that “Cannot complete this operation. The file could not be found”. I checked the path of the file location where it was stored, it was fine. Yet, this error message is blocking me from opening my image file. Can anyone suggest me on how to fix this PSD file error?”

Adobe Photoshop is an excellent image editing tool widely used for creating amazing pictures. Using this tool one can develop / edit picture files with utmost quality and multi dimensions that will be further utilized for multiple purposes. But Photoshop Document (PSD) file has certain issues that limit the usage of this tool such as PSD image files displaying errors. When user tries to open / edit any PSD file on Photoshop, varieties of error messages may get displayed blocking its access, one among them is mentioned above i.e. ‘Photoshop file could not be found’. Let us know how this error message gets displayed, what are causes for it and how to resolve this PSD error?

PSD Error:‘Photoshop file could not be found’

There are many reasons that cause this error when a Photoshop image file is tried to open or if you try to save the changes that has been made to image file. Below given are the notable scenarios in which Photoshop file error gets displayed:

• When user tries to open Adobe Photoshop application on Mac OS from user profile (not as administrator)
• When image is tried to edit from shared network / remote drive like removal hard disk that got disconnected in between
• When path of the image file that is being edited is incorrect (image files from email attachments, etc.)
• While saving one image format as another file format e.g. TIFF as JPEG
• Missing of image file extension

Possible causes for this error message might be incorrect Mac system preferences, PSD file corruption, missing of PSD file, software conflicts after migrating Adobe Photoshop from one version to other and so on. In all such scenarios, user may get the error message as mentioned above and face problems in accessing the PSD file.

How to fix PSD file could not be found error?

Most of the times, uninstalling Adobe Photoshop application is the best solution to fix PSD file errors. Apart from that user can follow the below mentioned methods to repair PSD file that shows Photoshop file not found error message on Mac:

• Check whether additional plugins of older Photoshop version still exists on the system and if yes then disable Additional Plugins Folder option.
• Check for system preferences. Go to Users -> Username -> Library -> Preferences -> Remove com.appleLaunchServices.plist
• Do not directly open image file attachments from Apple’s Mail application or from external storage devices. Drag the file to some location on system hard disk and then open with Adobe Photoshop
• Before opening a picture file, make sure that path of the image file is correct and the file has valid image file extension (jpg, tiff and bmp)

If all these suggestions fail to fix PSD file error, then you can prefer to use good PSD file repair software.

Software to resolve Photoshop file error:

Yodot PSD Repair is the best option to fix all Photoshop file errors including the error Photoshop file could not be found. This amazingly brilliant tool scans entire PSD file to fix all irregularities in that file and makes it perfectly normal again. The software has caliber to repair PSD files having 1, 8, 16 and 32 bits per channel and color modes like RGB, CMYK, Bitmap, Grayscale, etc. Given software version supports to fix PSD files from Adobe Photoshop CS, CS2, CS4, CS6 and other versions on major Macintosh OS systems. Just try out the demo version separately available for both Windows and Mac OS platforms and experience the efficiency of PSD repair process.

Procedure to use Yodot PSD Repair tool on Mac OS X:

• Download the software and install it on your Mac system
• Run the utility by following provided instructions
• In the main screen, click on “Browse” button to select error showing PSD file on the system that has to be repaired
• After selecting PSD file, click on “Repair” button
• Now software starts to repair the file and its status will be displayed in progress bar
• Once repair process is done, you can view all the contents like layers, masks, etc. of repaired PSD file using Preview button
• Next, select desired location on system drive and click “Save” button to save repaired Photoshop file

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