Elements 7 Refused to Open a PSD = How I Fixed It

I thought I would share this experience in case it may help someone else.

Using Elements 7, I had just finished editing/creating/saving a small batch of PSD image files; and then, I thought of something else I wanted to do to them.

So, in FastStone, I selected the group and hit the "E", which sends anything selected to the Elements Editor.

I performed my task and saved them back, writing over the previous state.

I also saved jpeg copies of each file.

It was then that I noticed one jpeg that did not have my new edit; I just thought maybe I had somehow missed it.

So, I went to the Editor to reopen a recently edited file = that particular file was not in the list = it sure should have been.

I went back to the PSD in FastStone, selected it, and hit "E" = the Editor appeared as it should, but no PSD showed up.

I tried this a few times with no success.

I then tried dragging/dropping and no go.

Did File > Open , navigated to the PSD and chose it to open = still no go.

I tried several other methods of opening the PSD --- that Elements itself had just created a little while earlier --- with no success.


How I finally got it to work = in FastStone, I renamed the PSD, simply adding xxx to the existing file name.

I selected it, hit "E", and it immediately opened in the Editor as it should.

I know this is a simple fix, but it worked when nothing else I was trying did.


I have no idea why that particular file decided to behave as it did.