smart objects

Trash preferences. See the forum FAQs if you don’t know how.

Ramon, I see nothing in either Photoshop preferences or bridge preferences that refer to smart objects and I found nothing in the FAQ’s to help me.

From: <http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c057d1b>

How do I delete the preferences?

Buko – 05:18pm Dec 4, 2007 Pacific

From the Photoshop help files:

Restore all preferences to default settings

Do one of the following:
Press and hold Alt+Control+Shift (Windows) or Option+Command+Shift (Mac OS) as you start Photoshop. You are prompted to delete the current settings.
(Mac OS only) Open the Preferences folder in the Library folder, and drag the Adobe Photoshop CS Settings folder to the Trash.
New Preferences files are created the next time you start Photoshop.

To delete SFW prefs, first quit Photoshop.

go User(home)>Library>Preferences>Adobe Save For Web 10.0 Prefs and drag it to the trash.

Relaunch Photoshop.

I DID THE OPTION+COMMAND+SHIFT AS I STARTED CS3. IT NOT ONLY MADE MY BRIDGE DISAPPEAR WHCH I GOT BACK BUT THE SMART OBJECTS ARE STILL THERE. ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS. SHOULD I DELETE ALL OF THE PS3 AND RELOAD IT FROM MY DISC OR IS THERE ANOTHER WAY.

THANKS

JERRY

Please stop shouting, Jerry. All caps are next to unreadable.

What have you tried so far? What routine maintenance do you perform on your machine? Did you actually check the boxes and chose to delete preferences when prompted? Try it again.

Note that you must quit both Photoshop and Bridge before deleting preferences.

See next post for routine maintenance.

Routine maintenance is imperative.

I still advocate Repairing Permissions (with Apple’s Disk Utility) before AND after any system update or upgrade, as well as before AND after installing any software that requires an installer that asks for your password.

I have seen software installations go sour because the installer did not find everything as and where it should be.

I have also seen software installations go bad because the installer did not clean up after itself properly and did not leave everything as and where it should be.

This is just my own personal opinion and practice based on my own observations. Others may disagree and that’s OK. I can only base my routines and my advice to others on my own experience and conclusion. I don’t pretend to know why others believe otherwise.

Repairing Permissions after the fact (i. e. not immediately before and after an install) seldom helps.; Try it anyway, though.

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Additionally, if your machine does not run 24/7 so that it runs the daily, weekly and monthly Cron Scripts in the middle of the night as intended by Apple, run Cocktail (shareware) as well.

Cron Scripts are maintenance routines designed by Apple to run on a daily, weekly and monthly basis in the middle of the night.

If you don’t run them, you WILL run into trouble, sooner rather than later.

Here’s an excerpt from the Apple tech doc <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107388>

Mac OS X performs background maintenance tasks at certain times if the computer is not in sleep mode. If your computer is shut down or in sleep at the designated times, the maintenance does not occur. In that case, you may want or need to run these manually.

Mac OS X periodically runs background tasks that, in part, remove system files that are no longer needed. This includes purging older information from log files or deleting certain temporary items. These tasks do not run if the computer is shut down or in sleep mode. If the tasks do not run, it is possible that certain log files (such as system.log) may become very large.
Also, from: <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106978>

The disk activity generated by find is a normal part of file system maintenance, used for tasks such as removing invisible temporary files that are used by the system. It is scheduled to occur early in the morning at 03:15 everyday, 04:30 on Saturdays, and 05:30 on the first day of each month.

NOTE: There have been comments to the effect that Apple "fixed" this in 10.4.2 and later versions of the OS, but I have not been able to verify this to my satisfaction. The reference in the 10.4.2 release notes are far from explicit on this subject.

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If you have DiskWarrior, run it regularly too.

sounds like you have open as smart object checked in Camera RAW

You can clear that by clicking on the BLUE output formatting line of type at the bottom of the ACR window and then UNchecking the "Open in Photoshop as Smart Object" box (as shown here);

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Jerry,

Thank Buko’s clairvoyance and mind-reading powers for figuring out you were talking about raw files, which you never mentioned yourself.

Thank all of you for your help, Ann’s suggestion was the one that worked. Again thanks to all that left comments. This was the first time on the forum and I am quite pleased with the wonderful response.

Jerry