beginners question about saving a file

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tom debrayanna
Dec 3, 2003
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hello
I made a graphic, saved it in psd format and today started changing it and wanted to file/save it as i progressed but photoshop tells me it can’t save it because the file "is already in use or was left open.." puzzling… can anyone help?
thanks
tom
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edjh
Dec 3, 2003
tom debrayanna wrote:
hello
I made a graphic, saved it in psd format and today started changing it and wanted to file/save it as i progressed but photoshop tells me it can’t save it because the file "is already in use or was left open.." puzzling… can anyone help?
thanks
tom
take the Z out of shaw to reply personally if you want

What version of Photoshop? Are you updated, i.e. PS 6.0.1 or 7.0.1?

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steph
Dec 4, 2003
"tom debrayanna" wrote in message
hello
I made a graphic, saved it in psd format and today started changing it and wanted to file/save it as i progressed but photoshop tells me it can’t save it because the file "is already in use or was left open.." puzzling… can anyone help?
thanks
tom
take the Z out of shaw to reply personally if you want

heres your answer, pasted from another post:

"This problem is most often caused by the program that displays icons and thumbnails for Photoshop files in Windows Exploder. In a standard install, this program is
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\psicon.dll .
The last I heard, Adobe claimed it was a Microsoft bug and Microsoft claimed it was an Adobe bug. This bug can also prevent you from saving a file from within Photoshop.

The simplest workaround I know of is to rename psicon.dll and reboot. You should then be able to delete the files, but Windows Exploder will not display thumbnails or
special icons for them. You can then rename the file
back to psicon.dll and reboot, and things will return
to normal.

I try to avoid bugs like this by never having Photoshop
and Windows Exploder open the same directory at the
same time. It may also help to turn off thumbnail
caching in Windows."

to save your file, simply choose "save as" and give it a new name, then you should be able to continue to save that new file as normal. after finishing editing, close photoshop, delete old file, and rename new file as desired.
TD
tom debrayanna
Dec 6, 2003
Thanks alot Steph.. I’m almost glad to learn it wasn’t me being an idiot….
thing is though .. this must be a very common problem…one that P or MS should fix…
as of right now, I have nothing else open, and can’t save a copy I just edited…

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 02:29:58 +1300, "steph"
wrote:

"tom debrayanna" wrote in message
hello
I made a graphic, saved it in psd format and today started changing it and wanted to file/save it as i progressed but photoshop tells me it can’t save it because the file "is already in use or was left open.." puzzling… can anyone help?
thanks
tom
take the Z out of shaw to reply personally if you want

heres your answer, pasted from another post:

"This problem is most often caused by the program that displays icons and thumbnails for Photoshop files in Windows Exploder. In a standard install, this program is
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\psicon.dll .
The last I heard, Adobe claimed it was a Microsoft bug and Microsoft claimed it was an Adobe bug. This bug can also prevent you from saving a file from within Photoshop.

The simplest workaround I know of is to rename psicon.dll and reboot. You should then be able to delete the files, but Windows Exploder will not display thumbnails or
special icons for them. You can then rename the file
back to psicon.dll and reboot, and things will return
to normal.

I try to avoid bugs like this by never having Photoshop
and Windows Exploder open the same directory at the
same time. It may also help to turn off thumbnail
caching in Windows."

to save your file, simply choose "save as" and give it a new name, then you should be able to continue to save that new file as normal. after finishing editing, close photoshop, delete old file, and rename new file as desired.

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