Displace filter and "deep folders"

TM
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Thomas_Madsen
May 28, 2004
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Hi,

Maybe this is a well known bug, but I sure haven’t seen, heard or read about it before.
I’ve spent hours today wondering why the Displace Filter suddenly didn’t work in neither Photoshop 7 nor Photoshop CS. I could select the displace map, but when I clicked on OK in the Displace dialog box, nothing happened at all. No visible changes in the document, no error message, no new entry in the history palette. Nothing what so ever seemed to happen.

The document and the displace map was saved in a folder with the following name:
C:\Documents and Settings\Thomas Madsen\Desktop\IT-Skolen Digi\Billedbehandling PC-erhverv\Materiale\Ekstraopgaver\Displace

It seems that the path to the displace map is the cause, because if I rename the Displace folder to Di, the displace map inside the folder works fine, but if the last folder is more than two characters long, it doesn’t work.

I’m using WinXP Pro SP1.


Regards
Madsen

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Chris_Cox
May 28, 2004
Hmm – we’ll have to look into that. It’s quite possible that there is a file path limit hiding in Displace.
TM
Thomas_Madsen
May 29, 2004
Chris,

It seems that way. That’s the only reason I can find at the moment. I’ve just tried in Photoshop 6.01 and the same thing happens there so it’s the same in both 6.01, 7.01 and CS.


Regards
Madsen
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Mark_Allen
May 29, 2004
Thomas, Maybe it doesn’t know that much Scandinavian. I’d go Dutch! LOL!

Regards

Mark
TM
Thomas_Madsen
May 29, 2004
Mark,

LOL! Maybe you’re right. πŸ˜‰
Maybe this strange Danish language is messing things up but at least I’m not using the strangest letters of them all like Γ¦, ΓΈ and Γ₯. I always try to avoid those letters because I’ve seen peculiar things happen when they’re used in folder and file names.


Regards
Madsen

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