Photoshop 7.1 just exits - CMYK jpg or long file name issue?

[N A Lubas]

When attempting to access a directory to open a file, Photoshop 7.01 just exits without warning and without any error message. This first happened when I received a jpg image saved as CMYK; file also had a fairly long name. Saving file as RGB did not solve problem, but seemed to alleviate it slightly as did moving the file to another directory - sometimes I could access it and sometimes PS would just close out. Has anyone else ecountered this?

[N A Lubas]

Additional Note - when reopening the saved-as-RGB file, Photoshop says "the file contains data that cannot be read, this data will be ignored."

[Chris Cox]

Sounds like you have hard drive problems....

[Helen Polson]

Does the same thing happen if you navigate to that folder using another program, such as windows explorer? If so I can confirm hard drive errors as I have the same problem before I got a new hard drive! My workaround was to copy and paste the entire folder to another section of the hard drive- which I could then access. Hope that helps!