Photoshop CS file access idiocy

JM
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James McNangle
May 20, 2006
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When I went to use Photoshop yesterday, it hung just before loading completed. I tried several times, rebooted, tried several more times but to no avail. I thought I would have to reload it, but that would have meant finding the disk, andI didn’t desperately need it, so I abandoned it. During the night I remembered that a day or two earlier my wife had asked me to print a photo for her. The photo was on her computer, which is linked to mine by a local area network. She was at golf yesterday, so her computer wasn’t on. Today it was on, and Photoshop started first-time. I checked the "recent files" and, sure enough, her file was second on the least. I loaded a large number of files, so that it disappeared off the list, turned her computer off, closed Photoshop and tried to reopen it. It hung again. I turned her computer on, and again it started immediately.

After some more experimenting I discovered that the maximum length of the "recent files" display was 30 files. So I went on opening files until the offending file disappeared. Then I closed Photoshop, shut down my wife’s PC, and restarted Photoshop. This time it started okay!

So can anybody tell me why in Hells name Photoshop thinks it should access a file on some other computer just because I opened it a day or two before, and why this should cause the program to hang if that computer isn’t switched on?

James McNangle
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Mike Russell
May 20, 2006
"James McNangle" wrote in message
When I went to use Photoshop yesterday, it hung just before loading completed.
I tried several times, rebooted, tried several more times but to no avail. I
thought I would have to reload it, but that would have meant finding the disk,
andI didn’t desperately need it, so I abandoned it. During the night I remembered that a day or two earlier my wife had asked me to print a photo for
her. The photo was on her computer, which is linked to mine by a local area
network. She was at golf yesterday, so her computer wasn’t on. Today it was
on, and Photoshop started first-time. I checked the "recent files" and, sure
enough, her file was second on the least. I loaded a large number of files, so
that it disappeared off the list, turned her computer off, closed Photoshop and
tried to reopen it. It hung again. I turned her computer on, and again it
started immediately.

After some more experimenting I discovered that the maximum length of the "recent files" display was 30 files. So I went on opening files until the offending file disappeared. Then I closed Photoshop, shut down my wife’s PC,
and restarted Photoshop. This time it started okay!

So can anybody tell me why in Hells name Photoshop thinks it should access a
file on some other computer just because I opened it a day or two before, and
why this should cause the program to hang if that computer isn’t switched on?

What version or Photoshop are you using? As I recall this was a problem with v6, that was fixed with the 6.0.1 patch.
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Mike Russell
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noone
May 20, 2006
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"James McNangle" wrote in message
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What version or Photoshop are you using? As I recall this was a problem with v6, that was fixed with the 6.0.1 patch.
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Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com/forum/

I have three (soon to be four) computers on a P2P network and, at any given moment, others might not be on. Now, I usually Copy any file, that I’m working on to whichever machine I have up and running, but do Open (from another machine) on occasion. I’ve had P2P networks since about v4, and have never had this problem. It seems, however, that when I installed v6, I immediately patched to 6.0.1, as it was out already, so if it WAS a version issue, I may well have missed it.

It’ll be interesting to see what ver James has. Then there will be the problem of finding the 6.0.1 patch, or upgrading. Guess I’d better resurrect some of my older boxes, or BU tapes, and see if the patch is still around.

Hunt
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Harry Limey
May 20, 2006
"Hunt" wrote in message

It’ll be interesting to see what ver James has. Then there will be the problem
of finding the 6.0.1 patch, or upgrading. Guess I’d better resurrect some of
my older boxes, or BU tapes, and see if the patch is still around.
Hunt

No problem for Adobe
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=3 9&platform=Windows
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noone
May 21, 2006
In article <446f6666$0$10753$>,
says…
"Hunt" wrote in message

It’ll be interesting to see what ver James has. Then there will be the problem
of finding the 6.0.1 patch, or upgrading. Guess I’d better resurrect some of
my older boxes, or BU tapes, and see if the patch is still around.
Hunt

No problem for Adobe
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=3 9&platform=
Windows

It’s still around? Great. That saved me looking in a cabinet of 24GB tapes. Thanks. Hope the OP sees your follow-up and that the patch is what they need.

Good work,
Hunt
JM
James McNangle
May 21, 2006
"Mike Russell" wrote:

What version or Photoshop are you using? As I recall this was a problem with v6, that was fixed with the 6.0.1 patch.

Sorry not to have got back earlier. I’m using CS 8.0

James McNangle

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