preference problem

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Mike Teegarden
Jun 20, 2005
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Sometimes after closing CS2 and reopening the program, many of my preference settings return to the default settings, including my color settings and scratch disk preferences. Any ideas on how I can make these settings stick?

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Tacit
Jun 20, 2005
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Mike Teegarden wrote:

Sometimes after closing CS2 and reopening the program, many of my preference settings return to the default settings, including my color settings and scratch disk preferences. Any ideas on how I can make these settings stick?

Nope–not enough information.

What kind of computer do you have? Mac or PC? What operating system are you using?


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Mike Teegarden
Jun 20, 2005
tacit wrote:
In article ,
Mike Teegarden wrote:

Sometimes after closing CS2 and reopening the program, many of my preference settings return to the default settings, including my color settings and scratch disk preferences. Any ideas on how I can make these settings stick?

Nope–not enough information.

What kind of computer do you have? Mac or PC? What operating system are you using?

Sorry!! I know that. 🙂

PC with XP Pro
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Flo Nelson
Jun 20, 2005
"Mike Teegarden" wrote in message
Sometimes after closing CS2 and reopening the program, many of my preference settings return to the default settings, including my color settings and scratch disk preferences. Any ideas on how I can make these settings stick?

Don’t know how to solve the problem, but you can make a copy of your preferences file and then restore it when this happens. Located in C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application
Data\Adobe\Photoshop\7.0\Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Settings for my PS7 on WinXP Pro.

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KatWoman
Jun 20, 2005
"Mike Teegarden" wrote in message
Sometimes after closing CS2 and reopening the program, many of my preference settings return to the default settings, including my color settings and scratch disk preferences. Any ideas on how I can make these settings stick?

I don’t know for sure, but someone else reported a problem with removable drives. If you open PS and don’t have all the drives it’s looking for turned on it gets "confused".
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Mike Teegarden
Jun 20, 2005
KatWoman wrote:
"Mike Teegarden" wrote in message

Sometimes after closing CS2 and reopening the program, many of my preference settings return to the default settings, including my color settings and scratch disk preferences. Any ideas on how I can make these settings stick?

I don’t know for sure, but someone else reported a problem with removable drives. If you open PS and don’t have all the drives it’s looking for turned on it gets "confused".

None of the drives I have are removeable. Actually, it is one drive with partitions.
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Tacit
Jun 20, 2005
In article ,
Mike Teegarden wrote:

Sorry!! I know that. 🙂

PC with XP Pro

Sounds like it may be a permissions issue.

Did you install Photoshop using an administrator account? Are you running it as an administrator? Do you have read and write access to the directory where Photoshop keeps its preferences (this is different for different versions–the Adobe Web site can tell you where the preferences are stored for your version)?


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Mike Teegarden
Jun 20, 2005
tacit wrote:
In article ,
Mike Teegarden wrote:

Sorry!! I know that. 🙂

PC with XP Pro

Sounds like it may be a permissions issue.

Did you install Photoshop using an administrator account? Are you running it as an administrator? Do you have read and write access to the directory where Photoshop keeps its preferences (this is different for different versions–the Adobe Web site can tell you where the preferences are stored for your version)?

I do have all relevant permissions, and it was installed with an administrator account. This is an intermittant problem.
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Tacit
Jun 21, 2005
In article ,
Mike Teegarden wrote:

I do have all relevant permissions, and it was installed with an administrator account. This is an intermittant problem.

Hmm. Haven’t seen that.

One thing, though: Photoshop saves its preferences only when you Quit, so if it crashes or you use the Task manager to kill it, the preferences you’ve changed during that session won’t stick.


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Mike Teegarden
Jun 21, 2005
Tacit wrote:
In article ,
Mike Teegarden wrote:

I do have all relevant permissions, and it was installed with an administrator account. This is an intermittant problem.

Hmm. Haven’t seen that.

One thing, though: Photoshop saves its preferences only when you Quit, so if it crashes or you use the Task manager to kill it, the preferences you’ve changed during that session won’t stick.

This is wholesale resetting to factory prefs. And it does happen sometimes when PhotoShop is foreced to quit. But other times, I can quit and open the program later and the prefs are as I want them. I have not found a pattern.

I appreciate your suggestions.

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