ODD PHOTOSHOP BEHAVIOR

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KevinBBG
Oct 6, 2008
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When I opened Photoshop this morning I discovered that all my preferences were gone. I had to reset all my windows, very annoying because I put all tools on the second monitor. I have no idea why this happened.

I reset everything and saved it then made sure I had a second version backed up, all seemed fine. Then I noticed all my menus at the top looked different, many selections were gone and an extra one was there that said "Show All Menu Items". So I selected it only to find that I had to select it again the next time I dropped down that menu. This happens with all the top menus that have this option and I have to redo it each time I use that menu, it won’t stay there as the default.

I’ve never seen this before, the menu I get when I click on "Show All Menu Items" is the menu I have always had. Is there an easy way to fix this? I went looking for a setting for that but can’t find one.

I’m running CS3 on and Intel iMac with Leopard, 10.5.5

Kevin

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KevinBBG
Oct 6, 2008
OK, just found the problem, I had to open up Menus just below Keyboard Shortcuts (neither of which showed up until I clicked on "Show All Menu Items"). In there I found I was using Basic(revised). Very odd since I have never opened up that menu before and never changed it from the defaults so how did this get revised?

So I reset it to Photoshop Defaults and all is well once again.

I would really appreciate it if anyone could tell me why or how all this could have changed. I did run Cocktail last Friday and cleaned caches, but I have done this before more than once with no problems, nor were any other CS3 apps affected.

Kevin
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Allen_Wicks
Oct 7, 2008
I would really appreciate it if anyone could tell me why or how all this could have changed.

It is very technical: Stuff happens!
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Lundberg02
Oct 7, 2008
You need to have "It’s A Kind Of Magic" playing in the background at all times.

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