Help required: some PS-plugins newly won’t load in PS6 (but others will…)

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Dec 15, 2003
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hi to all,

I’m working on a mac with OS 9.2.2 and I just encountered a problem today which I couldn’t fix. I used to keep my third party plugins in their respective folders within my main/default PS6 plugins folder. some of them even in another "Additional Plugins" folder within the default plugins folder. this has worked fine for quite some time, but today I realized that quite a lot of those filters didn’t come up anymore in the menu (yes, and I wasn’t in CMYK mode…).
strange enough they do load in PS7 (different language version I installed recently) though they are exactly the very ones used (or rather tried to use) with PS6 as I put aliasses of them from the PS6 plugins folder to the plugins folder of PS7. that means the aliasses all(!) work with PS7 whereas the originals (or rather a number of them) won’t load with PS6.

I’m really at a loss here. I’ve deleted PS6 preferences and PS6 "paths" file but to no avail.

though PS6 is bit dated by now it’s a version in my native language so I rather prefer to work with it sometimes and it’s not so cool to not have all the plugins available.

so if anybody has an idea what to do, I’d really appreciate it. TIA!

hunter

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vizrosplugins
Dec 20, 2003
It has nothing to do with 6 or 7. If you make alias, it just like you have two copies in 6 and 7. Some plug-ins need to be "installed", not just "copied" to the directory. YOu sure those plug-ins show up before?

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"hunter" …
hi to all,

I’m working on a mac with OS 9.2.2 and I just encountered a problem today which I couldn’t fix. I used to keep my third party plugins in their respective folders within my main/default PS6 plugins folder. some of them even in another "Additional Plugins" folder within the default plugins folder. this has worked fine for quite some time, but today I realized that quite a lot of those filters didn’t come up anymore in the menu (yes, and I wasn’t in CMYK mode…).
strange enough they do load in PS7 (different language version I installed recently) though they are exactly the very ones used (or rather tried to use) with PS6 as I put aliasses of them from the PS6 plugins folder to the plugins folder of PS7. that means the aliasses all(!) work with PS7 whereas the originals (or rather a number of them) won’t load with PS6.
I’m really at a loss here. I’ve deleted PS6 preferences and PS6 "paths" file but to no avail.

though PS6 is bit dated by now it’s a version in my native language so I rather prefer to work with it sometimes and it’s not so cool to not have all the plugins available.

so if anybody has an idea what to do, I’d really appreciate it. TIA!
hunter
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hunter
Dec 23, 2003
(Vizros Plug-ins) wrote:

It has nothing to do with 6 or 7. If you make alias, it just like you have two copies in 6 and 7. Some plug-ins need to be "installed", not just "copied" to the directory. YOu sure those plug-ins show up before?

Tony G. Smith

hi tony,

thank you very much for your post. well, hardly anyone seems to have an idea how to tackle my problem (or cares to to post at least). so I’m double thankful to those who give it a try.

but back to your post: yes – I’m perfectly sure that all those plugins did run with PS6 before I put them to use with PS7 as well (via aliasses of their original PS6 location). those plugins which needed to be installed have origininally been installed to the PS6 plugins folder and – as I said – all of them seem to work with PS7 now. but some (e.g. SuperBladePro, Xenofex
1.0 and a few others) just don’t turn up with PS6 anymore.

I just can’t make out any scheme or plan behind that all. I’m very vaguely inclined to think it started when I installed the Extensis MaskPro plugin (to PS6), but I’m not really sure of that.
can it possibly be that it’s somehow written in the plugins’ preferences which copy or version of Photoshop they are running with? or maybe they just stick to the newest version of PS available on the HD? just like my photoshop files which now all cause PS7 to start when double clicked in the finder when no photoshop version is open yet?

well, I’m a photoshop user for more than 10 years now and for the first time I’m really at a loss to explain such unexpected behaviour of this truly great application…

so any ideas are still sought for and welcome.

hunter

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