Color Libraries not working anymore

JG
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Julien_Grimard
Jun 30, 2008
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Hi,

I was creating an .acb (adobe color book) file to access my company’s colors from the color picker’s color libraries section and everything was going well. It was all working, I’ve been using it for some time, and then I decided to change the name of my library in the coding.

After that the color libraries stopped working. Not only my color library, but the color library function in Photoshop. Now when I try to access the color libraries section from the color picker, it simply closes the color picker. It doesn’t give me any error message. Photoshop doesn’t crash or anything, it’s only that I can’t access the color libraries section.

I tried removing my .acb file from the \Adobe Photoshop CS2\Presets\Color Books folder, but it didn’t solve the problem. The color libraries still won’t open.

Anyone knows a solution to this problem. It’s kind of urgent since I need that color library file working for a tool I’m developping for my company.

Would there be someplace in Photoshop that I could reset Photoshop’s color libraries to start from scratch and go back to my old version of the .acb file that was working perfectly, before I changed it’s name?

Right now I’m using Photoshop CS2, I should be switching to Photoshop CS3 soon, but I’d like to have a solution to make sure the same problem doesn’t happen on CS3.

Thanks.

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OldBob
Jul 1, 2008
2 thoughts — for what they’re worth:

1) (Possible) Try trashing your Prefs (Instructions are in the FAQ section.

2) (Less likely) Try restoring Windoze to a point before the change.

Good luck.
JG
Julien_Grimard
Jul 2, 2008
Hi OldBob,

Thanks for your reply. Actually, I haven’t had to try your solutions because for some reason the problem is fixed now. All I did was modify again the code name of my color books to something else and put them back in the color books folder and it got back to life. It still doesn’t explain why the problem wasn’t fixed when I deleted them from the folder, so I guess if it happens again I’ll try your solutions to see if it helps.

Thanks!
O
OldBob
Jul 2, 2008
Hey, whatever works. I’m glad you got it solved.

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