How To Reset Photoshop For Better Efficiency

david_h

I'm struggling here, hope someone can help.

At home, we have a wireless network and while I mainly work on my Thinkpad, I usually store files on one of the desktops.

Anyway, when I start Photoshop on the Thinkpad, it always wants to find that network drive and crashes if it can't. This basically means that I can't use Photoshop at all right now unless I'm at home.

Any ideas as to how I can correct this, it's getting really frustrating.

Thanks.

wxwax

Is it CS? Is it trying to log on to the internet?

I ask in ignorance. But on my machine, everytime I start-up PS, ZoneAlarm tells me PS is trying to access the internet. I think it's Adobe making sure that PS is being used on the machine to which it was registered.

colourbox

I'm not sure if this will work on your version of Photoshop, but it works on the latest couple versions: Start Photoshop, but hold down Ctrl, Shift, and Alt (on a Mac you would hold down Command + Shift + Option). That will open a dialog box asking if you would like to delete the preferences. I'm not sure if that will remove the remembered folders on the network, but it's worth a try.

david_h

Sid, it's CS. I don't htink it's connecting to the internet, just looking for a file that's on the unavailable network drive.

Coulourbox, thanks for the tip. I tried it and it let me right in. PS starts much much faster as well, must have accumulated a lot in the preferences file.

AllYoursVPP

Same issues, PSE 8
How about on PSE 8 ? I've had my organizer crashing repeatedly at various early stages of startup lately. I've researched the heck out of it and reinstalled, so far nothings working. The box I received with your advice is the Catalog manager. Again, it's PSE 8, so *shrug*. Whatcha think?

colourbox wrote: »

I'm not sure if this will work on your version of Photoshop, but it works on the latest couple versions: Start Photoshop, but hold down Ctrl, Shift, and Alt (on a Mac you would hold down Command + Shift + Option). That will open a dialog box asking if you would like to delete the preferences. I'm not sure if that will remove the remembered folders on the network, but it's worth a try.

colourbox

AllYoursVPP wrote: »

How about on PSE 8 ?

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PhotoshopElements/8.0/Win/Using/WS3427C0BF-03F8-421b-8CDF-6AC4D42C9983_WIN.html

AllYoursVPP

Thanks
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Thank you!

Allie

colourbox wrote: »

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PhotoshopElements/8.0/Win/Using/WS3427C0BF-03F8-421b-8CDF-6AC4D42C9983_WIN.html