Calculations causes complete lock-up

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el Condor loco
Jul 20, 2009
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Hoping someone may be able to advise me on this problem I am having: I have owned CS2 Ver:9.0.2 for several years now & am content to continue using this rather than upgrade, as it exceeds all I need or can master.

I have not used the "calculations" portion of PhotoShop for many months. Now when I click on the ‘calculations’ menu button in the ‘Image’ drop down, PhotoShop freezes / locks-up immediately. This happens every time now that I try to access this feature. I have re- booted, restarted & reset numerous times over the past week with the same results each time. The graphic I have opened that I am working on, immediately turns to grayscale (b&w). The cursor continues to ‘work’ & I can point & click on any of the tools or any of the other menus, but nothing ever activates. I am un able to minimize or close the opened graphic / or PhotoShop itself. The only wayout is: Ctrl + Alt + Delete…… The Windows Task Manager shows PhotoShop "running" but the only way out is to "end task". The beep sound when I click on any of the tools or menu items does beep each time, but the program remains "frozen". The files are 8 bit, if that would matter.

Any ideas at all? I have searched these archives with no luck. It is installed on a PC with Windows XP. I use a pen / tablet with it & using this is the same as using the mouse. All the other tools / functions work fine.

Thanks for any advice. Curt H. Townsville, Queensland – Australia

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el Condor loco
Jul 21, 2009
On Jul 21, 2:26 am, el Condor loco wrote:
Hoping someone may be able to advise me on this problem I am having:  I have not used the "calculations" portion of PhotoShop for many months.  Now when I click on the ‘calculations’ menu button in the ‘Image’ drop down, PhotoShop freezes / locks-up immediately. Thanks for any advice.  Curt H.  Townsville, Queensland – Australia
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Dear list…..
After a few hours of sleep, I checked through this groups archives again & have fixed the problem I have been having with the "calculations" feature. I am not extremely literate with the tech side of software / computers, so I don’t know why this worked, but it did. I just ‘re set the preferences / psp.file, and started over with the default prefs. I then set them how I like & made a backup folder with these new prefs. Should be able to re load these if this or anything similar happens again.

The tip(s) on re setting the prefs. files seem to cover a multitude of glitches that can occur in CS2, so am so grateful to those of you that have taken to time / effort to post these tips previously. Your help, knowledge & courtesy for sharing with others is really gratifying. There were many previous posted tips on this general topic & you will each know who you are, so again, thanks to you all. Sorry for taking up the bandwidth with my 2:00 A.M. earlier post. thanks again to this lists members & its archives…… Curt
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