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31 May 2007

Photoshop won't run! Hope me? →[More:]Whenever I try to run photoshop, it gets to the stage of registering plugins, then, poof! it vanishes. I tried uninstalling and re-installing, but no dice. There's plenty of space free for virtual memory on /c (nearly 12 gigs to be exact) so all of the obvious fixes have been tried. Any ideas?

Deprived of the ability to 'shop goatse hands onto any and all round-ish objects, I will whither and die!

post by: pieisexactlythree at: 20:42 | 9 comments

oh, btw, I'm running Photoshop 7 on Win2k pro

posted by pieisexactlythree 31 May | 20:44

I suggest crayons and colored pencils.

posted by mischief 31 May | 20:57

Try this, maybe?

posted by puke & cry 31 May | 21:08

You might have font issues. Have you installed any new fonts lately?

posted by signal 31 May | 23:02

Maybe check that after running the uninstaller, that there's no remaining remnants of some broken plug-in hanging around in \Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop or \Program Files\Common Files\Adobe or any of the other three thousand places this program puts its grubby paws.

posted by Rhomboid 31 May | 23:22

P&C: I don't even have a "C:\\Documents And Settings\\YOURUSERNAME\\Application Data" directory. Could it be that it's an XP directory that doesn't exist in 2k?

Signal: I haven't installed shit on this machine in ages.

Rhomboid: I'll give that a try when I try uninstalling again.

posted by pieisexactlythree 01 June | 00:09

pie, win2K has to have C:\\Documents And Settings\\YOURUSERNAME\\Application Data directory. If it does not, you may have more problems than just the one with Photoshop.

posted by arse_hat 01 June | 00:20

Your Application Data folder is probably hidden. Go to any folder window and click Tools from the menu, select "Folder Options", click the View tab, and make sure the radio button for "show hidden files and folders" is selected. Click OK to all this nonsense and go trolling to "C:\documents and settings\username\application data" (which will now be there, but slightly grayed out).

posted by disclaimer 01 June | 07:02

The problem has been completely by-passed: I installed CS2 and it works great!

posted by pieisexactlythree 05 June | 18:30

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