Browser – Getting Directory File List…

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harrillj
Feb 17, 2004
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Through the night, I let "cache subfolders" run over my image drive which has a few thousand files. Before this, I had several folders of high res scans (720DPI to 1200 DPI) that froze Photoshop everytime I clicked on that folder in the Browser. I was hoping this proces would correct it, but on 3 or 4 folders, the ones with the largest files, it did not. It still freezes Photoshop forcing me to exit with Task Manager.

What I do notice is that along the bottom of the browser, when I click on the folder, it reads "Getting Directory File List…" That’s where it freezes?

I then placed the 12 files in this large folder each into their own sub-folder, ran the "cache subfolders" again. Now I had one file in each folder. Then in the browser I clicked on each. On about 8, the image popped popped right up in the browser, but on 4 of the sub-folders, Photoshop froze again while "Getting Directory File List", and this time there is only one file in each of these folders, albeit large file.

Any help would be appreciated
Thanks

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dave_milbut
Feb 17, 2004
can you describe the images it’s hanging on in more detail? what’s in them, what image mode, etc. i’m sure the adobe guys will want to know this stuff. any info you can provide would be great. (they may even ask for a sample image).
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harrillj
Feb 20, 2004
OK.. I have narrowed it down to STN (Genuine Fractals Sting files) that I created way back when I scanned these large high res images and did some editing on them. PS CS locks even when I try to open through the menu bar with File/Open. So it is not the browser. I guess I need to contact Lizard Tech to ask why their .STN files are not opeing in Photoshop CD.
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dave_milbut
Feb 20, 2004
afaik stn(?) files were never supported by photoshop.

I don’t think they should freeze the browser though. the adobe guys might be interested in this.

good sluething!

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