"Matt" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2ecdc01c46b53$026b98c0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Overnight, it seems, about 1/3 of my EPS photo files were
> corrupted. These were greyscale image knockouts with
> clipping paths that I use over and over for a particular
> client. Adobe Photoshop will no longer recognize the
> files but Adobe Illustrator will open them, claiming that
> they now contain RGB data. Also, the corrupt files are
> no longer importable into Adobe InDesign or QuarkXpress.
> I realize that I can open the files in Illustrator and
> resave them as EPS files which Photoshop will recognize
> but this involves additional reformatting which I don't
> wish to perform for hundreds of files.
>
> I run Windows XP and I have Norton, which is updated
> daily. (I do not think the problem is viral because a
> much larger number of images would have been affected.)
> Also, I have a primary disk and a backup disk; the same
> images on both disks were corrupted.
>
> Help! Any ideas?
1. Check out the SMART readings of your hard drive:
Download Everest from
http://www.lavalys.com and
run it. Expand "Storage" and click on "SMART". The
"Worst" value of all the parameters not marked "Always
passing" should be well above the "Threshold" (except for
the "Spin Retry Count", whose worst value may be just a
little over the threshold).
2. Run a memory diagnostic: Download "memtest86+"
from
http://www.memtest.org) and run it for a few cycles.
You should get zero errors.
-- Bob Day
http://bobday.vze.com
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