Photoshop Preferences

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PJ_Staley
Feb 17, 2009
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I have Photoshop CS4. Each time I start Photoshop, I have to reset the preferences. I thought that they were supposed to remain the same until I opened the preferences dialogue box and changed them. How do I get them to save?
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Chris_Cox
Feb 17, 2009
What do you mean "have to reset the preferences"? Why are you having to reset them?

Photoshop preferences save when you exit the application. And yes, you change them inside the application (but preferences includes a lot more than just the things in the preferences dialog).
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Rob_Keijzer
Feb 17, 2009
This can happen if Photshop is closed abnormally.

For instance when the computer is shut down with PS still running.

Rob
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Dave
Feb 20, 2009
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:25:30 -0800, wrote:

I have Photoshop CS4. Each time I start Photoshop,
I have to reset the preferences.
I thought that they were supposed to remain the
same until I opened the preferences dialogue box and changed them. How do I get them to save?

be careful. this I think, is a troll.
On the other hand, not even the trolls are so stupid.

This one said, ‘I thought they were supposed to remain the same..’

So, they change. What a liar!
Are you using a ‘portable edition’?
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dogzilla
Feb 26, 2009
This exact thing happens to me in CS2, and I don’t have a solution, but I do share your frustration.

It can happen several times a week, without warning. I always close Photoshop before turning off the computer at night, and haven’t had any crashes or power failures during all this time.

This is a work-supplied computer running Windows XP Professional.

Intermittently, Photoshop just resets all of the preferences in Edit>Preferences. Every category, from "General" to "Memory" settings.
It is my understanding that Photoshop is supposed to automatically save those, but if that’s not the case, can someone please advise?

If they do need to be saved, how is that done? I never had this problem in previous versions of Photoshop. Thanks.
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dave_milbut
Feb 26, 2009
dz, when you get them set the way you want, back up that whole preferences folder structure. that way you can quickly restore them when they reset.

I know that’s not a solution, but maybe it’ll help a little bit. especially if you’re constantly losing a lot of custom stuff you need to recreate like actions and brushes etc.
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dogzilla
Feb 26, 2009
Dave,

Thanks for your quick response, I’ll give that a try. Sounds like a good solution until I can figure out the underlying cause.

Obliged.

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