PS 6 can not initialise PS because file is locked

OK before you all say have a look at the forum. I have i have read everything there is on this site and tried everything but to no avail. I have tried deleting the prefs and re installing. Where it falls down is initialising the memory looking at the load screen it gets to measure memory and then throws this error up. Can anyone shed some light on this. I would run it as a power users but being a Uni I can not do this

This is sending me round the bend.

I think ive got a similiar problem with Photoshop Elements. The problem was that the user havent got any rights to write to other maps than C:/program. You can go around it with creating a scratch disk on D: (You have to divide the disk to one more partion)
Then you must go in to the preference file as a power user and select D: as the scratch disk. Then you have to copy the preference file to the other user. At least it works in our company now.
It must be something similar in Photoshop....
Probably when the program initialise the memory its gets locked up if the user havent got the rights to write to a certain space on C:

This has taken me about a week playing with the software but at last got it working under a user. The problem is that the program writes tmp files to the root of C:\ when initialising. You have to give the users access to these tmp files, i.e. full control. You can not give them w,r,x,d it just does not work. There is a big drawback to this. You have to give them full control to the root which means easy deletion of files, just be aware of that. Thanks to everyone that helped.

just a quicky to add to the above. give your users full access to the root of c:\ then it will load. Once it has loaded change the scratch pad from startup to another partition other than c:\ This will mean one of two things. 1 add another hd as a scratch disk that everyone has full access to. 2 Create a partition on the hard disk you have and give them full access to that. After that is done you can then get rid of the permissions set on the root of C:\ back to normal. Cheers, I now have to rebuild an image for a machine as i have destroyed most of the settings.

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 02:55:35 -0800,
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This has taken me about a week playing with the software but at last got it working under a user. The problem is that the program writes tmp files to the root of C:\ when initialising. You have to give the users access to these tmp files, i.e. full control. You can not give them w,r,x,d it just does not work. There is a big drawback to this. You have to give them full control to the root which means easy deletion of files, just be aware of that. Thanks to everyone that helped.

Rule #1:
Never install an NT operating system to drive c: !
Use D, E, or F... etc.

I saw a similar bug in an old program called NetMedic.
It never initalised properly when a user logged on. An error window would pop up instead. But, my WIN2k path is F:\WINNT, so I had full ACL function, on a file-by-file basis. All I did was go into F:\Program Files\VitalSigns\Net.Medic\ and add user to the ACL with "allow full access". Right-click | Properties -- Secuity tab -- Add button -- Users -- Ok button -- Security -- check "allow" for Full Control.

I'm not sure what the exact path would be for your installations of _Photoshop_, but that's the general idea. Just keep it out of the C: drive.
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-john

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