On Dec 19, 2005, at 3:06 PM, Tom Baker wrote:
On Dec 19, 2005, at 1:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 1:04 PM -0700 12/19/2005, Tom Baker wrote:
Dan, I appreciate your help very much. This is driving me nuts.
Me too! This type of issue shouldn't be this hard to fix! :)
I also asked for help over in the Adobe user-to-user forum,
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.3bbd97dd#post , and somebody there just wrote
this:
"I may have found an EASY solution. I went to my USER prefs folder
and trashed all the CS2 PS files and folders. I then booted into my
Test User account, which would open photos in PS. I copied all the
same files and folders that I had just deleted from my master
account into a folder on the hard drive. In fact it may be easier
just to delete all the preferences in your test user account, then
open PS CS2. This will generate all new preferences that should
work. Copy all those into a folder. Switch back to the regular
account and replace all of your Preferences with these from your
test user. This worked for me and I had the same problem that you
did."
Trouble is, I don't know what the "Test User" is that he's talking
about.
It's not a special name. Just a 2nd user account that he created.
The one where Photoshop works...
Maybe I can just steal the prefs folders from any new, working
account I create. Now I just have to figure out which files and
folders those are. . .
Look at that first URL I gave in my other reply today. It has a list
of them.
- Dan.
OK Dan, here's what I did, and it worked! Photoshop is fixed again:
1. I created a new user, which I named User 2.
2. I logged in as User 2 and opened Photoshop, thereby creating a
fresh set of Photoshop preferences for User 2, carefully noting the
time.
3. I opened User 2's Preferences Folder (Library > Preferences) and
noted which prefs had changed at that time. I made a note of them,
there were four:
Adobe Photoshop CS2 Paths
Adobe photoshop CS2 Settings
com.adobe.mediabrowser. plist
com.applerecentitems.plist
4. I opened my main account's user prefs folder and dragged those four
freshly updated prefs from User 2 over into it (thereby replacing the
ones in the main user's account).
5. I logged out as User 2 and logged back in as my main user, and
Photoshop was fixed!
Now, let's see how long it stays fixed this time . . . . I'll yelp
here again if it breaks again, and maybe we can figure out why.
Thanks for all your help!
Tom
Oops, Photoshop just broke again. And I fixed it again, by the method
listed above. So it's fixable, but how come it keeps breaking? By
breaking I mean it won't open a picture. When I try, it builds up all
its menus and palettes and toolbar, but then instead of the picture
appearing, the beachball just spins forever until I force-quit it.
Photoshop never broke like this when I was running it in a 733 Da, but
now that I've moved the hard drives over into a Quicksilver 2002 it
keeps doing this (yes, I remembered to transfer the Adobe Activation
from the old machine to the new). Could there be something about the
Quicksilver, or just the fact that I moved the hard drives from one
machine to another, that is causing this? How can I track down this
problem?
Tom
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