On Jul 19, 2007, at 18:52 , Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > Folks the link sent by Bill offers some very interesting reading. > If you > Have an Epson Twain driver this occurs in tandem with Photoshop. I > opened my preferences in a window, opened Elements 4 and 4 of these > mysteriously named folders eerily showed up. > > In the words of Charlie Brown - "Rats". > > I have an epson scanner - if anyone has any thoughts on how to remove > the twain driver and still use the epson scanner, I will appreciate > hearing them.
The TWAIN driver simply lets you scan from within another application, instead of having to scan from within the epson scanning app. Off the top of my head, I cannot remember where Epson puts its TWAIN drivers, but all you need to do is make a '...(disabled)' folder and move the drivers there. For instance, if the drivers were in /Library/Foobar/Epson/EpsonCrappyGarbage, then make a folder / Library/Foobar (disabled)/Epson, and move the EpsonCrappyGarbage folder over. The log out and log in. I generally don't delete things like this, in case I have some real need for them in the future. You can then use the EpsonCrappyGarbageScanner software to scan. Bill P.S. CrappyGarbage is not a copyright of Epson, nor is it particular to Epson. It seems to be the same software used by Canon and other scanner makers.
