I would never expect windows to read those files. They have to be saved correctly to be compatible with the OS. Someone might have not have had comparability on when they saved them. If you don't then PS doesn't save a full size proxy which is what the OS reads. Ever had a file that you can see but then can't open? Its because the OS can read the proxy and not the rest of the file. There are a zillion file formats that no os will read. These are called intermediate formats and are not designed to be read by the OS. Painter RIFF files aren't readable by anything other then painter at all. Archive and delivery formats like EXR, DPX, DCS eps, PDF and many others have very stricked and open standards.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:38 PM, <PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx> wrote:
When I started using Photoshop CS3 I noticed that Windows XP couldn't read the psd files that had smart filter layers in them and thus Windows could not copy them when I was doing back up. I stopped using smart filter layers. The problem will really come to the fore when psd becomes completely incompatible with the Windows OS'Roy"For a generation, institutions from the Museum of Modern Art in New York to the Pompidou Center in Paris have been collecting digital art. But in trying to restore the Davis work, which was finally debugged and reposted at the end of May, the Whitney encountered what many exhibitors, collectors and artists are also discovering: the 1s and 0s of digital art degrade far more rapidly than traditional visual art does, and the demands of upkeep are much higher. Nor is the way forward clear. In a message dated 6/11/2013 6:47:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx writes:"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/arts/design/whitney-saves-douglas-daviss-first-collaborative-sentence.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
