Slooooooooow startup..

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Sherrie_Buckridge
Jan 30, 2004
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I just installed Photoshop CS and it is taking about 3-5 min to finish loading the plugins and all. I know I have a lot of plugins, but ver 7 loads in about 5-10 sec. using the same plugin folder. I tried reinstalling, but it makes no difference. Same thing happens with Illustrator CS and Photo Image. Ideas? I thought that maybe it was because it was the first time, but after 10 or more startups, it still is super slow. I tried using just the plugin folder that is in PS CS, and then it loaded in about 20 sec.

Using Windows XP. Have 75 gigs free on drive, 512 megs of ram, 2.8 GH. Can’t figure it out. Appreciate any help..

Thanks,
Sherrie B.
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dave_milbut
Jan 30, 2004
sherrie, move everything that’s NOT a plugin out of the plugins folder. all textures and readme’s and other support files etc.

dave
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Sherrie_Buckridge
Jan 31, 2004
Thanks for the suggestion. I am reluctant to move all, because the plug ins need to be able to find the support files. Why does CS have this problem, when 7 didn’t?
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dave_milbut
Jan 31, 2004
anything like a texture or image file that can be loaded into a plugin can be browsed to from within the plugin interface. autofx throws a couple thousand files in there. from what the ps engineers have said, the problem is in the new calls that cs uses to scan the folders for plugins. the calls were changed from ps7 in order for cs to get the xp logo specification.

leave all the actual plugins: *.8b*. most everything else can go. unless it shipped with cs.
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Sherrie_Buckridge
Feb 5, 2004
Do you know of a way to load just the *.8* files? Another program I have allows you that option. That choice allows the program to load quickly.

Thanks for your help,
Sherrie B.
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Chris_Cox
Feb 5, 2004
No – Photoshop does try to load just the .8** files – but first we have to search all the files to find out the extension and THAT is what takes all the time.

Move the non-plugin files out of the plugins folder, and that will speed things up considerably. And ask the makers of whatever plugin put the excessive junk in the plugins folder to please update their plugin so that it puts the junk elsewhere.

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