Can't open .tifs/ .tiffs

I'm still relatively new to mac. I've really had very little trouble so I never had the ambition to dig around to fix things like I had to do in Windows. There's never been anything to fix.

But I've been doing some digging today to solve an issue--I cannot open a .tif (or .tiff) file on my mac.

I've searched old threads and googled for a solution but nothing works. I used to be able to open these files BEFORE I installed Snow Leopard--and that's interesting because there have been other issues I've had after I installed Snow L that I didn't have in Leopard--playing .avi's (I figured that one out.)

Any help/ suggestions/ criticism/ abuse is appreciated...

Jim

Thanks for the info and advice--I tried Preview and a host of other programs through my searches and each program has it's own little way of telling me it can't open the files--Preview gave me this:

The file “2001 Subaru.tiff” could not be opened. It may be damaged or use a file format that Preview doesn't understand. (I also changed the extension to .tif and got the same message...

However I was able to open these files before I installed Snow L.

Thanks,

Jim

jetworkr said:

Thanks for the info and advice--I tried Preview and a host of other programs through my searches and each program has it's own little way of telling me it can't open the files--Preview gave me this:

The file “2001 Subaru.tiff” could not be opened. It may be damaged or use a file format that Preview doesn't understand. (I also changed the extension to .tif and got the same message...

However I was able to open these files before I installed Snow L.

Thanks,

Jim

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