Data is data. Files dont need to be for a given os to be seen as long as the storage medium is os valid. Any data can be moved unless its attributes are set to not allow the os and user to alter them.
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-------- Original message --------
From: karl shah-jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 06/12/2013 12:30 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: digital art issues.
I don't think Roy was talking of Windows opening them, but 'reading' as in
recognising them as a file - in such a way that they could not be copied..
much as corrupted files sometimes cannot be copied.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Little" <randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: digital art issues.
>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.
>
> Randy S. Little
> http://www.rslittle.com <http://reel.rslittle.com>
> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2325729/
>
>
>
>
> 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&
>>
>>
>> Randy S. Little
>> http://www.rslittle.com <http://reel.rslittle.com/>
>> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2325729/
>>
>>
>>
>
