Photoshop error on opening files

[rickself]

I get this all the time and I haven't put a finger on it yet. When I drag and drop eps or tiffs, doesn't matter, onto Photoshop icon, I get the error "Could not import the clipboard because of a program error". Anybody have a fix figgered out on this one? OS Panther and PSD 7 or CS, happens on both.

[billdakelski]

Interesting, I did not even know you could do that, what purpose does is serve? Why not just open photoshop, then open the file?

[rickself]

Interesting, I did not even know you could do that, what purpose does is serve? Why not just open photoshop, then open the file?

I'm in prepress and I preflight a bunch of images at one time, opening 15-20 at once dropping em on the psd icon. Used to work fine in OS9. dunno why not now.

[billdakelski]

You can also select all of the files then double-click one of them and it opens them all. You can also get info on a group of files and select the default application that you want to open them.

[PrintDriver]

Rickself, I haven't seen that error. You've tried the Adobe site?
I love that drag open myself and wouldn't want to live without it.

It sounds like a clipboard problem rather than a Photoshop problem. Does this happen all the time or only when you are working on something massive that may have been copied to clipboard?

[rickself]

Adobe had nothing.
The error shows up whether I just boot up for the first time in the day or in the middle of the day. I drag maybe 10 psd, tiff, or eps files to the psd icon and the error comes up with an "OK" button, clears and comes back. After I OK the second time, Photoshop remains open but nothing happens and I can drag the same files to the icon and they open. So there is a workaround, just inconvenient. I did a google search and only hit once at MACOSX.com. No answers there either. Oh well...pffffttt!

[skinns]

Have you tried to have photoshop already opening and then dragging all the files from your explorer onto photoshop?