Preferences Keep Throwing Themselves Away! Why?!!!

TB
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Thomas_Bricker
Nov 18, 2006
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Ive been having this weird problem with Photoshop for about a year now. Every now and then Photoshop will just delete all my preferences as if I had never specified them, for no reason.
This doesnt happen after crashing. (Phtsp rarely does…) Photoshop keeps my Actions Set but it wipes out my pallette choices, my filing handling prefs like Maximizing compatibility, etc…)

Drives me crazy!
Is there any solution to this problem?
Is this a known issue?
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Buko
Nov 18, 2006
Save your workspace for starters.

make a copy of your prefs and if they disappear just replace them.
TB
Thomas_Bricker
Nov 18, 2006
I do save my workspace.
I hit my saved space and Photoshop ignores it.

My question is why does it trash my prefs in the first place?
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Larryr544
Nov 18, 2006
They are depressed? 🙂
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Hexebah
Nov 18, 2006
Thomas

You could try making an Action that records you setting up all of your preferences. Save this, and you can recall it anytime your pref’s vaporize on you.

Doesn’t answer your original question but may help in the future.

Chip
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Ram
Nov 19, 2006
Thomas,

Something is corrupting your Photoshop preferences. Try some routine maintenance on your machine (trash Photoshop’s preferences file, run Disk Utility, Cocktail, DiskWarrior, etc.).

If that doesn’t help consider doing an "Archive and Install" of the OS.
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PeterK.
Nov 20, 2006
Don’t shut off your computer before quitting photoshop.
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Ram
Nov 20, 2006
Don’t shut off your computer before quitting photoshop.

Yes, that would certainly do it. 🙂

Photoshop saves its preferences only when you quit it in an orderly fashion.
CK
Christine_Krof_Shock
Nov 21, 2006
Also save a copy of your Workspace outside of the application folder…then you can just reload it if you ever need to trash preferences….
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Buko
Nov 22, 2006
If you trash your prefs you don’t trash your workspace.

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