PSP2018 x64 - .pspimage files too big and corrupted

[mrwho]

Good morning!

I've registered here to tell about a problem I'm having after buying PSP2018 a few days ago. I've searched the forum before registering and couldn't find any mention to this particular problem.

What happened was that I was working on a small project (a flier for my wife, starting with a JPG file) and every time I saved the work in progress the file would get disproportionately big. At first I didn't pay any attention, because it's normal for a file to grow when you're adding things to it (although the fact that it grew hundreds of megabytes when I just added a new layer seemed suspicious to me).

What rang the alarms in my head was when I resized the image from (about) 5000 pixels wide to 1600 pixels wide, and then saved the job, the file grew from 800Mb to 1.1Gb instead of shrinking.

What I did next is what I regret - I closed PSP and opened it again, and now I can't open the file - 3 hours of work lost.

Is this a known problem? Is there a fix for it, or at least in the works? Is there any way I can recover my lost work? I can share it with anyone, if needed.

EDIT: In the meantime I re-did the flier, so there's no need to recover the data. Still, now everytime I use PSP I save under a different filename everytime I do it, in fear of losing all the work. I'd say this is an urgent issue, and I hope the developers can look into it.

Thanks.

[Ravelli]

Hello mrwho,

in fact, I have a similar issue: A file which has a file size of 80.03 MB. It consists of one bitmap and one vector layer with just one text object. Dimensions are 918x240 pixels at 8-bit RGB.

When I delete the text object and the bitmap layer, the file size after saving again is at 66.55 MB. So, the visual aspect of the file is empty, but the file still keeps hidden data. Even down-scaling it to 1x1px and combing all layers, does not reduce file size.

Another problem are the embedded information about the editing steps of the image. This saves additional plain XML data into the file, called Adobe Photoshop History. In one of my projects I have 65 .psp-files, with each at ~3 MB file size, round about. I work on those files regularly since seven years. Tests have shown, that each file contains ~0.5 MB of such XML data. That is not much, sure, but a) I wasn't aware of it before, and b) I don't get rid of it anymore: If I disable this feature in the Preferences, it won't delete the XML data on saving the file again. With hundreds of PSP-files and sending them often via Email.

But that is the common Corel crap.

Good night

[JoeB]

@Ravelli,

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the issue or your post. But the purpose behind saving in .pspimage format is to save as much information about the image and its processing as possible. It sounds as if you're complaining that this is what it does. Perhaps you or others can enlighten me.

[mrwho]

Could it be that the undo steps are saved inside the file? That would explain the enormous size, and if that's it, an option to disable that would be most welcome.

[JoeB]

Could it be that the undo steps are saved inside the file? That would explain the enormous size, and if that's it, an option to disable that would be most welcome.

As far as I know, it doesn't save Undo steps or History. However, I only say that because neither of those are available when the layered .pspimage file is reloaded. It's possible that info is still there but not accessible, but I don't have a clue about that.

[Jean-Luc]

@Ravelli,
Are you speaking about -> Image -> Image informations -> Edit history ?
If you don't want this history to be embedded in each image, disable it under -> Preferences -> Miscellaneous -> uncheck Save history to image Metadata.