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Bsmalldesign
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6 years ago

Illustrator Files won't open after downloading or syncing back to my Mac

I just went into my dropbox and synced/downloaded some Illustrator files from last year. The dropbox preview shows the file and the finder shows the thumbnail for the file. All of the linked files/fo...
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Bsmalldesign
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6 years ago

Also, I can open/see the files perfectly if I open the AI files in Photoshop (but of course I don't need them opened in Photoshop, I need them in Illustrator, haha).

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Bsmalldesign
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

Looks like somehow when Dropbox synced, it corrupted all of the placed/linked image files because I can't open those in Photoshop individually. When I delete them from the linked folders, I'm able to open the AI file. But now I have to re-source my images.

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