Starting Photoshop 3.0 in Windows 2000

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Robert_Nicolai
Jan 21, 2004
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I have been using Photoshop 3.0 ever since 1995. I just got a new computer and it has Windows 2000 on it. I installed Photoshop 3.0 on it but when I started the program I got the error message that said "Could not initialize Photoshop because the primary scratch disk is full." That is ridiculous. My computer has more than enough disk space. I think Photoshop 3.0 can not read all the gigabytes that are available so that is why it’s telling me it is full.

What is even worse is that the program ends when I click "OK." I can not even get into the preferences to change them. If I could I may be able to start the program.

Adobe should never have decided to end the program if this error exists because on initial startup you can never start the program.

How can I fix it?

Bob Nicolai

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viol8ion
Jan 21, 2004
Adobe should never have decided to end the program if this error exists because on initial startup you can never start the program.

How can I fix it?

Do think it just might be possible that Adobe came out with newer versions of Photoshop that actually work on newer OS’s because the legacy versions wouldn’t?

Nah.. nevermind.. yep, it’s all Adobe’s fault, they should fix an obsolete product just for you!
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ID._Awe
Jan 21, 2004
Well the answer is to cripple you machine. Make sure you only have 256 or less of RAM, and make the pagesys file less than 256.

Truth is, you really should upgrade.
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dave_milbut
Jan 22, 2004
Well the answer is to cripple you machine. Make sure you only have 256 or less of RAM, and make the pagesys file less than 256.

right-o.

Truth is, you really should upgrade.

….and if you don’t want to spend for a full upgrade to photoshop version 8 (aka Photoshop CS), ps elements 2 is light years ahead of photoshop 3. still for the couple extra dollars you should get the latest version of ps. what other company will alow you to skip 5 versions to their latest and still pay the same upgrade price as if you didn’t skip any. it’s really a great deal.
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Rick Moore
Jan 22, 2004
True – with AutoCAD you pay twice the upgrade price if you skip a version, three times if you skip two, and after 3 versions skipped you would have to buy a new license at full price

what other company will alow you to skip 5 versions to their latest and
still pay the same upgrade price as if you didn’t skip any. it’s really a great deal.
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ID._Awe
Jan 22, 2004
Derrick: Sh-h-h-h-h, don’t tell them that, they might wise-up, oh wait…..
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dave_milbut
Jan 22, 2004
same (similar) with poser. skip a version and pay mo’ money! i think that sux! adobe is pretty cool with their upgrade policy.
RN
Robert_Nicolai
Jan 22, 2004
I looked at the more recent versions of Photoshop but don’t like them. In this version if I want to move part of an image I just do it with the arrow keys. They have a nudge thing in the later versins which you have to use. It’s not that I could not learn a whole new system but if I am happy with what I have right now why change it?

This version does everything I want to do and I have been using it so long that now I know I have to do without consulting a manual. I’m comfortable with 3.0 so don’t need any of the enhancements that are now offered.

What I need to do is be able to start the program so I can change the preferences. I am now prevented from doing that. There are no preference files I can change either. No PSP files exist with 3.0. I’m just up a creek with no paddle. I have tried to adjust memory and disk space but have not yet found anything that will work. Maybe if I use Partition Magic and create a 20MB partition then place this verison in that partition it will start since it should be reading from the same disk when it starts and that will not be too big for it to understand.

Any other sugguestions?

Bob Nicolai
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Phosphor
Jan 22, 2004
"Any other sugguestions?"

Ummm…crawl back under your rock? πŸ˜‰

Seriously, though: If you know Photoshop 3 as well as you say you do, finding your way in a newer version that’s made to take advanntage of the system you’re running wouldn’t take you long. Sure, some things you’re used to, like keyboard shortcuts, prehaps, have changed but it’s not like going from hang glider to space shuttle.

You say that you don’t need the enhancements of newer versions. But you can’t really know that unless you give the new version a fair shake, now can you? And a fair shake is NOT playing with it on someone else’s system for a couple hours.

For all the time you’re wasting trying to get relatively ancient software to run on a new system, you could be happily swimming along getting to know your way around in a far superior piece of software.

Let go of your Luddite ways, Robert, make the leap,and enjoy the future!

πŸ™‚
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Robert_Nicolai
Jan 23, 2004
I appreciate the fact that you are suggesting a better product but I want to make this product work on this machine.

I tried networking into this computer from my other Windows 2000 machine. I was able to start the program from that machine so changed all the disk preferences and was still not bale to start the program from the new Windows 2000 machine. That tells me that there must be some setting in the new computer that Photoshop does not like because it starts from a different computer running the same operating system as this one. I even tried starting the same version of Photoshop on the network from a computer running Windows 98 and it worked. So settings on this computer are irrelevant. What settings should I look at to fix the problem? A different Windows 2000 machine can run this program and the program can be run from a Windows 98 machine by this one when networking into it.

It is a problem I would like to know the answer to even if you think the program is too old to fool around with.

Thanks for the help.

Bob Nicolai
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Phosphor
Jan 23, 2004
Can anyone else hear my eyeballs scraping in their sockets and my marbles rattling as I slowly shake my head back and forth?

Oh, listen closely and you may hear me sigh, too.

Frizzle, frazzle, frozzle, frome.
Time for zis vun to…ummm…quit trying to talk any sense into someone who won’t listen.
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LenHewitt
Jan 23, 2004
Robert,

No PSP files exist with 3.0. <<

In 3x it was photos30.ini.

However,

3.0 would not even run properly under Win95 – it required 3.05. And to repeat a previous post, you can’t run 3.x with more than 512 megs RAM
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viol8ion
Jan 23, 2004
I appreciate the fact that you are suggesting a better product but I want to make this product work on this machine.

Can you read lips? TAKE OUT ALL BUT 512 MEG OF RAM TO START! Cripple your system, and you may get PS3 to work. But no guarantees… that is WHY software manufacturers UPGRADE their products… so that they work on UPGRADED OS’s…

</banging head severely into wall>
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viol8ion
Jan 23, 2004
On a different note… I want to install Photoshop CS on my DOS 4.1 on my 286 and it won’t even install! Hey Adobe, what gives! I demand that you fix photoshop now so that I can run it on the system that I want to run it on, your program is obviously broke!!!
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LenHewitt
Jan 23, 2004
Viol8ion,

Have you ever tried manipulating images from a command prompt? <vbg>

(Actually you can, sort of, using ImageMagick – transmogrify is, er, interesting)…..

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