Photoshop and USB adapters for CF cards – An Annoyance with drive letters

When I start PS CS without a CF card, PS complains mightily about not finding a file system on the drive letter. I can click on continue about 20 times to get passed it. Cancel and Ignore have no effect.

Is there any way to get PS to bot browse this letter unless I ask it to, or any other suggestion.

I assume w2k disk manager would let me assign the USB device to another drive letter, but since Z is taken, I have nowhere to go.

Resetting wverything that currently uses Z would be a PITA.
(Windows OS not being able to handle a non-existant disk has been a problem since Win 3.1 and I’m sure there is no cure in Windows.

When I start PS CS without a CF card, PS complains mightily about not finding a file system on the drive letter. I can click on continue about 20 times to get passed it. Cancel and Ignore have no effect.

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When I start PS CS without a CF card, PS complains mightily about not finding a file system on the drive letter. I can click on continue about 20 times to get passed it. Cancel and Ignore have no effect.

You weren’t using the File Browser to look at a CF card sometime recently, were you?

If so, you can trash the PS prefs and this should dissappear. It will, of course, blow away things like custom brushes and color settings, so exercise care.

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When I start PS CS without a CF card, PS complains mightily about not finding a file system on the drive letter. I can click on continue about 20 times to get passed it. Cancel and Ignore have no effect.

You must have browsed the card at some time with PS, and now it thinks it’s a member of its family, as it were.
The easiest solution is to keep a CF card in the reader. You must have an old one, everybody does!
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When I start PS CS without a CF card, PS complains mightily about not finding a file system on the drive letter. I can click on continue about 20 times to get passed it. Cancel and Ignore have no effect.

You weren’t using the File Browser to look at a CF card sometime recently, were you?

If so, you can trash the PS prefs and this should dissappear. It will, of course, blow away things like custom brushes and color settings, so exercise care.

Would it not be better, in this case, to insert a CF card in the reader, let Browser look at it, images or not, then point the Browser to another disk, remembering to always do this, when browsing a CF card?

My photoshop machine (w2k) has several disks, and a USB adapter for my CF cards. The USB adapter shows up as a drive letter even if there is no CF card in it. I have always given utility or dedicated-purpose disks letters starting from Z and working down.

The USB disk is F:

When I start PS CS without a CF card, PS complains mightily about not finding a file system on the drive letter. I can click on continue about 20 times to get passed it. Cancel and Ignore have no effect.
Is there any way to get PS to bot browse this letter unless I ask it to, or any other suggestion.

I assume w2k disk manager would let me assign the USB device to another drive letter, but since Z is taken, I have nowhere to go. Resetting wverything that currently uses Z would be a PITA.
(Windows OS not being able to handle a non-existant disk has been a problem since Win 3.1 and I’m sure there is no cure in Windows. It is better, it used to force a Three Finger Salute. This question is about how to make PS handle the situation more gracefully.)