Photoshop will not Open???? FINALLY!!! June 18th

[JoshuaTheJames]

It goes through the set up and right when photoshop should open it just disappears. Does anyone know why this may be?

thank you,

-Joshua

[Jason Manley]

it always does that the first time you ever use it tetsuo...

:)

kidding...check your scratch disks maybe...or just do a reinstall...i dunno...i dont know crap about the technical stuff...i got that with painter for a while on windows xp pro...had to reinstall and go into RUN: MSCONFIG and shut off all the startup programs except for the wacom drivers.

it works when I do that on that machine....cant figure it out...dell told me to do a complete reinstall of windows...


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[JoshuaTheJames]

thanks anyways...

do you know if I can some how adjust the scratch disk without opening photoshop...

thanks,

-Joshua

that would really suck to reinstall windows... would I have to back up everything before that... hmm I would assume, but I'm not sure...

[mtw]

Originally posted by JOSHUATHEJAMES
that would really suck to reinstall windows... would I have to back up everything before that... hmm I would assume, but I'm not sure...
I think he meant to reinstall Photoshop.

Have you restarted your computer? I know that sometimes processes don't close properly in Windows, so whenever you try to open that program it will think it's already open.

[Atomick]

First, locate your Photoshop preferences file and throw it away; delete it entirely. Then launch the app. You'll have to re-set some of your pref's (most will reset to their factory default), but that's a lot less work than re-installing all over again.

If that does not work, make sure that you have more than 200 MB or so on the HD's you have/had assigned as your primary and secondary scratch disks. If not, you simply need more HD space.

Make sure you are trying to launch it by just running the app, not double-clicking on a .PSD file; otherwise the failure to complete app launch might mean that your file is corrupted, or that you lack the appropriate scratch disk space.

PS7 does save an awful lot of things - brushes, actions, etc. - to the hard drive, and it's conceivable that one or more of these user-saved files that PS reads on launch is corrupted. This is HIGHLY unlikely, but possible.

If all else fails, re-install the application and try again!

Hope this helps,
-Atomick

[JoshuaTheJames]

Hey guys thanks for all the help!

A while ago I ended up just installing photoshop under a different user name and settings and that worked out... And just today I just tossed out the settings folder as Atomick said and it worked perfectly!

once again thanks,

-Joshua

[Cinsev]

OR!!! you could....oh.....you fixed it eh? well um good to hear,......*cough*cough*

actually i had that happen, it sucks, but with me it was a complete reinstall (didn't know about the preferences file until after)

glad to hear you got it going....