How do I turn off the File Browser in CS?

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dennis_johnson
Jul 6, 2004
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I do not use the File Browser, and would prefer if Photoshop would stop writing data to the File Browser/CS folder on my HD. Is there any way to stop this (other than not using Photoshop)?

I have set the File Browser preferences setting, "Do Not Process Files Larger Than:" to zero, and un-ticked all other choices in that dialog, yet files continue to be written to the File Browser folder on the C drive every time I open a file in Photoshop.

Is this inevitable, or is there a setting I am missing?
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Rick Moore
Jul 6, 2004
Good luck, Dennis. I’ve had a hard time just getting someone to acknowledge that this happens when opening files

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Mick_Murphy
Jul 6, 2004
I don’t think there is any way to turn it off. You can regularly purge entire cache. Alternatively, the following VBScript will delete all files in that folder every time you run it. If you want to use it, substitute your user name in the path and save the file as a plain text file with .vbs extension. The path should be on a single line, it may get broken here. Double clicking the file will delete all files in the folder or you can put it in your Scheduled Tasks folder and it will work in the background.

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

objFSO.DeleteFile("C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application Data\Adobe\FileBrowser\PhotoshopCS\*.*")

EDIT – best to run this after closing PS, otherwise you might get a Permission Denied error.
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Lawrence_Hudetz
Jul 6, 2004
Unless one also runs a bit of software to allow Windows Explorer to view the thumbnails, you won’t have any visual reference at all, seems to me.
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tmalcom
Jul 6, 2004
Dennis —

Like you, I don’t use the File Browser and wish there were a way to turn it off (removing it altogether would be even better). The FB seems bloated, and buggy to me. I do web design and the differences in the files are far too small to be seen in a thumbnail. I have found a way to stop it from making thumbnails, though. I never use the My Pictures (or My Documents or My Music for that matter) folder. By leaving the FB pointed at My Pictures and never, ever opening the File Browser, I don’t seem to accumulate any cached thumbnails. I also have the FB set to not look at files >1Mb and all of the Options checkboxes are turned off.
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Bruce_Fraser
Jul 6, 2004
Turn off "Allow Background processing" and don’t open the File Browser. It will then do absolutely nothing.

But don’t even whisper about removing it—it’s mission-critical to anyone building a workflow around raw digital capture.
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Rick Moore
Jul 6, 2004
If I open a file with the File|Open dialog, the File Browser cache will grow, this is with the File Browser not opened at all and "Allow background processing" turned off. Interestingly, though, I’ve found that it only seems to happen with local files (on any of my three drive partitions), not networked locations.

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Rick Moore
Barnes Gromatzky Kosarek Architects
512 476 7133
www.bgkarchitects.com

Turn off "Allow Background processing" and don’t open the File Browser. It
will then do absolutely nothing.
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Mick_Murphy
Jul 6, 2004
Turn off "Allow Background processing" and don’t open the File Browser. It will then do absolutely nothing.

Not the case here Bruce. Maybe that is a Mac thing. On my PC, each file opened generates something in the cache folder, even with the browser closed and background processing off. Seems to be related to thumbnail preview generation as there is a noticable slowdown in opening larger files after deleting the cache.
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Rick Moore
Jul 6, 2004
For clarification, it’s the single thumbnail under the explorer folder display in the Open dialog box, not the psicon.dll thumbnails within the explorer folder display.
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Rick Moore
Barnes Gromatzky Kosarek Architects
512 476 7133
www.bgkarchitects.com

Seems to be related to thumbnail preview generation as there is a
noticable slowdown in opening larger files after deleting the cache.
DJ
dennis_johnson
Jul 6, 2004
Yes, and it would be nice to be able to turn THAT bit of business off too…but we can’t.

Oh well.

Thanks for your input, folks. I guess the solution is that there is no solution.
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Lawrence_Hudetz
Jul 6, 2004
Derrick, did you install the psicon.dll? I didn’t think it was installed, and that’s why explorer doesn’t open the thumbnails. So, I added it.

I also had to install afew lines in the registry.

If you didn’t install the .dll, where did you find it?
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Rick Moore
Jul 7, 2004
It was there from the PS7 install – when I uninstalled PS7 I chose the option to keep shared files so it remained. But this doesn’t affect the situation in this thread’s topic.

Derrick, did you install the psicon.dll?

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