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Bruce Cutler wrote:

> To all
> A new problem appeared this week which is disconcerting.
> We have a Biorad MRC-1000 and use Confocal Assistant 3.10 to
> convert biorad .pic files to .tif files so that they can be used for
> image manipulation on other computers. In the past few days some of
> the converted .tif files will not open in Photoshop on  Macs (at
> least 5 different Macs have been tried). The error message is -
> "Could not open [file name] because an unexpected end-of-file was
> encountered. -39" Not all files that are in the batches have this
> problem, some do and some do not. Those that do not open on the Macs
> open fine on the Biorad PC computer. Also none of my PC users have
> this problem. If you try to convert the files a second time it
> sometimes works, but usually does not.  If you look at the sizes of
> the files that open vs. those that do not, the ones that do not open
> are 10-20% smaller than the ones that do open. Since Zip disks are
> the exchange and storage medium, we tried different Zip disks to no
> avail. It seems that if some tag is missing on the files that do not
> open, is there a fragmentation problem, is it a MacLink problem.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> Thanks
> Bruce Cutler
> Director, Microscopy Lab
> Univ. Kansas, Lawrence



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