Photoshop Suddenly Won’t Launch

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Alex_Sudmack
Feb 3, 2004
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Photoshop will act like its launching but once it is done checking over every thing it just closes out with out an error. Does anyone out there know what my be wrong with it and how I fix it? All the help is greatly appreciated thank you so much for taking your time to help me.
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Mark_Rankin
Feb 3, 2004
It’s not stopping at the font list and just shutting down is it? Mine did that last week and there is a fix for that in the FAQ section under "Photoshop stops loading at fontlisting."

‘b’Mathias Vejerslev – 12:05pm Dec 12, 2003 Pacific

Q: Photoshop splash screen freeze at ‘Sorting Font List’?

A: This may be due to a corrupt font installed on your system. Some shareware fonts are of bad quality, and can render incorrectly, causing Photoshop to freeze.

Some things to try:

1) Delete your Prefs file – See FAQ.

2) Do a system-wide search for adobefnt*.LST files and delete all you find – They will be rebuilt as required.

If neither of those work, you may have just too many fonts active or just a single corrupt font which you will need to delete.

Isolate the problem font by removing half your fonts, then check to see if the problem is resolved. If it ís, try loading half of the remaining fonts, check again etc. etc.

This way you should eventually be able to isolate the problem font.

LH
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Alex_Sudmack
Feb 3, 2004
I thank you so much deleting the preferences worked like a charm. With a little more research outside of the support pages and into the forums I learned that I am far from alone with this doozey of a problem. I have it fixed now and I can get back to making sites. Again thank you for your help.

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