Unable to view tif files

Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. Hello everyone, So after this last windows update broke windows photo viewer for many of my users, we've been using the "Photos" app in windows Best Answer. IT wrote: or an alternative app that will let us do that? Irfan Skiljan IrfanView 7. View this "Best Answer" in the replies below ».

Popular Topics in Windows Which of the following retains the information it's storing when the system power is turned off? Submit ». Lloyd This person is a verified professional. And to confirm, this file is NAME Just respond and I'll answer you with my email address. Thanks, David. I can send a file. Check your email I am having the same trouble. They were generated by a microfilm scanner. I tried opening them in preview, dragging and dropping them into photoshop and copying the file and changing the extension to.

The file size of each of these files is big enough that I would expect a good file to be there. I don't know what else to try. I'm hoping someone has a suggestion. Hey Scott, Feel free to send me your document and I'll take a look. In Jack's case, the file wasn't correctly formed. That might be the case here too. Email on it's way Timur Born. Hi Dave I'm having the same problem. I was able to drag and drop once, but can't do it again. Are you able to help?

Can you post a zip file of each of the files you list above? I can investigate. Howdy Paula, Sure. I'll take a look and let you know what I come up with, hopefully Tuesday. Hello Jeffrey, thanks for getting back to us. My test files are all 0. ACDSee tests were using the trial version, so I don't own that anymore.

So the latter might suffice. Jeffrey, how do I send you files? I can send you two files in an archive, one can be opened in PS, the other cannot.

There is only 1 px different in both directions between the two. While PS flips at x px, Faststone flips around x , but it's not so clear-cut there sometimes files open, sometimes not. This means that Faststone can open larger ACDsee created images than Photoshop, but both ultimately fail at some point. I've asked engineering to take a look. Correct answer by Jeffrey Tranberry.

Indeed, loading the formerly unloadable formats does work now. It takes a bit longer especially LZW and the progess bar is mostly missing comes only up right before loading if finished , but it does load the files. Thanks for looking into this. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help.

Thanks for your feedback. Why can't I open Tiff files in Windows viewer? I open with Windows Photo viewer and get a couple of pages in and then receive the error message, "Windows Photo Viewer can't open this picture because either Photo Viewer doesn't support tis file format, or you don't have the latest updates to Photo Viewer. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse.