I am running window xp on a e-mach t4010. All of a sudden I cannot open my Paintshop pro 8 files. The only thing I have done new is update Quicktime and that SEEMS to be when this happened. I use psp to edit all my graphics files and then convert to jpeg. I reinstalled psp8 hoping that it would re associate the files, uninstalled Quicktime, did a system restore back a month, all to no avail. The strange thing is that not all my files pix were affected. Within the same folder there are jpeg images that I can open, others that I cannot, that I used the same process to create. When I open my pix, the affected files are TITLED in black while the files I can open are in blue. I also cannot view the affected pix w/ movie maker, or any other graphics program. All the available file formats in psp8 have been checked. I have done nothing with the registry as of yet. Waiting for some ideas.If file TITLE is in blue it means the file is compressed and if it's black it means it's not compressed (Windows operating system does that to save storage space).

In regards to your graphic file.....you are in right track, file association might be messed up , since you have the PSP8 installed, couldn't you right click on the file and select "open with" and the browse for PSP8 and try to open it that way..Have you tried that? one last question, your graphic file -> do they have Windows GENERIC icon or any other (that's to verify the file association)


Cheers  All files that are unreadable have psp icon. Readeable files actually have the pix as icon. There seems to be no rhyme or reason for the unaffected files. Again, I edited the same way. Some are from the internet, some are scanned images, some are images I created, some are from a digital camera, some are captured from dvd. I tried the "open with" and the only programs listed are psp8 & moviemaker. Before I removed Quicktime, I tried to open w/ QT pix viewer and got an unsupported file warning. I can open images from a cd, so the affected images are all in "my pictures" They are not locked or read-only files. The only other change has been adding nikon software for a camera my wife purchased, but that was some time AGO and did not affect anything when it was installed. Nothing will RECOGNIZE these files and I've had some of them for several years. I've been doing graphics on the pc for years and I've never run into anything like this.Download and install  IrfanView and install it.
See if it will handle those files...
It sounds like the file association got messed up but this shouldn't damage the images themselves.
They may need to be renamed with the proper extension but Irfanview also has a built in tool for this.can you send me one of those unimportant damaged file see if it behaves different on my PC.

CheersThanks for sending me the file......I installed PSP 12 (or X2) and seen the same result, sorry.

CheersI tried infraview to no avail. It could not read file or convert it. I just noticed when I look at file associations in psp8, the .psp file is greyed out. Though it is checked, I cannot uncheck it, or do anything else with it. It is as if it's been disabled. When I look at file associations in windows, .psp is there. Could there be a program that has blocked that file association? Quote

When I look at file associations in windows, .psp is there