I uninstalled the Epson drivers and scanning application and ran photoshop and no eerie folders appeared in my preferences folder.
But I couldn't scan from within Photoshop. Next I reran the installer and ONLY installed the driver for my particular scanner (there were about 6 different drivers). Now when I open Photoshop - I only get 1 eerie folder in preferences instead of 3 or 4 or 5. I also have HP scanner software installed which doesn't seem to cause the problem. Oh well. I'm going to work on other things. Enough of this for now! Friday, July 20, 20079:52 AMBill Risingbrising at mac.com >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. > > > >_______________________________________________ >The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >be July 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
