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I do not want to use Bridge. No time for that, period.
Why on earth would anyone NOT want to use Bridge? It knocks spots off Windows Explorer in every which way.
Bridge was one of the main reasons for my upgrading to CS2 in the first place – and it certainly lived up to its promises. You really should get to know it.
I also have a "light, flighty, nifty image browser" called ACDSee 3.0 which I use a lot. Bridge has some really powerful features over and above the browsing function which I do appreciate but it’s not "light, flighty, & nifty" yet.
how about the fact that it takes over two minutes to open on my PC
Ah! but I’m not using your PC. Bridge takes eight seconds to load on mine – from cold. It integrates perfectly with Photoshop and seamlessly with Camera Raw.
Light? – I wouldn’t want it to be.
Flighty? – Well it certainly flies through the process of caching and thumbnailing.
Nifty? – Yep. There are some real nifty features in there which I now wonder how I managed without them.
Obviously we don’t want this thread to go the way of some of the previous Bridge-bashing marathons. However, suffice to say I invested quite some time and energy preening and honing my system to ensure the beast ran smoothly.
If bridge took two minutes to load on either of my systems, I’d be seriously looking into upgrading the boxes.
and CS2 wont even run attal on my PC. And I do not except the point that it is soley the fualt of my PC, but the fault of both my PC and something very strange in CS2. As you know very well many poeple are having problems with CS2, problems you or any one else can or are not alowd to answer.
If bridge took two minutes to load on either of my systems, I’d be seriously looking into upgrading the boxes.
hp workstation xw8200 Xeon CPU 3.60ghz 3gb RAM
The spec of my machine is not the problem here.
I have been using photoshop since version 3, never have I ever berfore had this kinda problem when upgrading, and I have taken every upgrade that has come along.
Because no one can answer the problems with CS2, IMHO i think it is futile to jsut blame the users PC.
Sorry Thee, old mate, I sympathize but I have to disagree.
Not far from us is a narrow country lane. A couple of years ago they reopened a quarry which meant heavy lorries started using the road. It started to crumble. The lorries could only crawl up the road very slowly.
The locals blamed the lorries – after all, they had been using the road for years with no problems.
The Lorry drivers blamed the council for not making the road suitable for their vehicles.
On the face of it, the road was alright – but something was obviously wrong beneath the surface which caused it to react adversely to the heavy traffic.
Ok look my point is, and I do keep saying that i do think my machine is at some percentage at fault, but so also is CS2. It is to fussy with what it wants and expects. Im sure it works fine on a machine that it wants to work on. Everything else works on my PC, I have no problems with the rest of the CS suit (apart for the slow boot of bridge )Mamromedia software works ok, So does Corel and Microcrap, CS1 works.
So why doesnt CS2 Photoshop, becasue in my opion there is a flaw in its needs, it should be more system friendly, and if not it should have a better error code generator.
The only option left to me now, or the last option i havnt taken on advice on to try and fix the problem, and not a gaurantee, but the last step i have to take begore Adobe would get more involved is reformat my. Im not going to do that. I will jsut have to keep using CS1, and keep complaning about CS2, and you know what, I bet CS3 will work fine, and if it does, will Adobe then admit there was a flaw with CS2, no of course not.
It doesnt make me feel any better ranting on about it, but I will wont stand be back and jsut be told "its your machine".
CS2. It is to fussy with what it wants and expects. Im sure it works fine on a machine that it wants to work on
I agree. Using my previous analogy, CS2 is a really big lorry. Far bigger than any of the other software "trucks" you mentioned.
I’m sure it pushes the OS, hardware and third-party drivers to the limit, to give us the powerful new features. And I’m also sure that this is why some people had so much trouble in the early days, whilst others didn’t.
As for reformatting. I know of at least one user who cured all his problems simply by replacing his hard drive and reinstalling everything from scratch!
Unfortunalty I asked my boss if i could upgrade to CS2 becasue some of the new features would be very usefull to me, he was a little reluctant but said yes. I can not now goto him and say becasue of the new software i wanted, I will have to take a day out of work, to format and reinstall everything, and I dont even know if this will cure the problem. My other option would be to come in and do it at the week end, unpaid, why would i do that?
CS2 may be a relay big lorry, but i have seen it running on smaller roads than mine 🙁
Yes. Because a (assumed) minority of users had problems with it; I never did. Since I have a new OS install on a new HD in my immediate future (and therefore will be able to install the CS2 Demo again), I WILL TRY IT if no one else has the testicular fortitude to do so.
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