PS6 Windows: Elusive prefs file

PS6, Windows.

Where's the "Prefs.psp" hiding?

According to the help file, in particular "Looking at the Work Area > Setting preferences" the PS preference file is called "Prefs.psp" and is located in the "Settings" folder.

This same help warns that:
"The default location of the Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings folder varies by operating system; use your operating system's Find command to locate this folder."

I have!!

Not only is this folder nowhere to be found but I searched the whole disk for "Prefs.psp" with Explorer and it came up empty!?

Don.

Don wrote:

PS6, Windows.

Where's the "Prefs.psp" hiding?

According to the help file, in particular "Looking at the Work Area > Setting preferences" the PS preference file is called "Prefs.psp" and is located in the "Settings" folder.

This same help warns that:
"The default location of the Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings folder varies by operating system; use your operating system's Find command to locate this folder."

I have!!

Not only is this folder nowhere to be found but I searched the whole disk for "Prefs.psp" with Explorer and it came up empty!?
Don.

have you tried to search for that file name with the command prompt? Sometimes, the Search in Windows will not show hidden or system files unless you specify that you want it to.

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On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 17:17:29 GMT, "L. McKenzie" wrote:

Don wrote:

PS6, Windows.

Where's the "Prefs.psp" hiding?

According to the help file, in particular "Looking at the Work Area > Setting preferences" the PS preference file is called "Prefs.psp" and is located in the "Settings" folder.

This same help warns that:
"The default location of the Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings folder varies by operating system; use your operating system's Find command to locate this folder."

I have!!

Not only is this folder nowhere to be found but I searched the whole disk for "Prefs.psp" with Explorer and it came up empty!?
Don.

have you tried to search for that file name with the command prompt? Sometimes, the Search in Windows will not show hidden or system files unless you specify that you want it to.

I always have both system and hidden files displayed, but your message gave me an idea...

I dumped the whole directory tree with:

dir /a /s /v > c.dir

followed by loading this into a text editor and searching like that.

And, sure enough, there it was:

C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\6.0\Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings\Adobe Photoshop 6 Prefs.psp

The spaces in the file name explains why neither Windows nor DOS could find it! When given the "full" file name (as in "Prefs.psp") Windows does an exact search (no wildcards). DOS on the other hand couldn't find it because the short version of the name (ADOBEP~1.PSP) is completely different.

Now, if Adobe put the name is quotes, like so "Adobe Photoshop 6 Prefs.psp" (as they should!!!) there would be no confusion...

Don.

Don wrote:

On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 17:17:29 GMT, "L. McKenzie" wrote:

Don wrote:

PS6, Windows.

Where's the "Prefs.psp" hiding?

According to the help file, in particular "Looking at the Work Area > Setting preferences" the PS preference file is called "Prefs.psp" and is located in the "Settings" folder.

This same help warns that:
"The default location of the Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings folder varies by operating system; use your operating system's Find command to locate this folder."

I have!!

Not only is this folder nowhere to be found but I searched the whole disk for "Prefs.psp" with Explorer and it came up empty!?
Don.

have you tried to search for that file name with the command prompt? Sometimes, the Search in Windows will not show hidden or system files unless you specify that you want it to.

I always have both system and hidden files displayed, but your message gave me an idea...

I dumped the whole directory tree with:

dir /a /s /v > c.dir

followed by loading this into a text editor and searching like that.
And, sure enough, there it was:

C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\6.0\Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings\Adobe Photoshop 6 Prefs.psp

The spaces in the file name explains why neither Windows nor DOS could find it! When given the "full" file name (as in "Prefs.psp") Windows does an exact search (no wildcards). DOS on the other hand couldn't find it because the short version of the name (ADOBEP~1.PSP) is completely different.

Now, if Adobe put the name is quotes, like so "Adobe Photoshop 6 Prefs.psp" (as they should!!!) there would be no confusion...
Don.

Yeah.. I agree. I had a swap file issue one time that locked the prefs file. I had to reset it within PS.

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Don wrote:

PS6, Windows.

Where's the "Prefs.psp" hiding?

According to the help file, in particular "Looking at the Work Area > Setting preferences" the PS preference file is called "Prefs.psp" and is located in the "Settings" folder.

This same help warns that:
"The default location of the Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings folder varies by operating system; use your operating system's Find command to locate this folder."

I have!!

Not only is this folder nowhere to be found but I searched the whole disk for "Prefs.psp" with Explorer and it came up empty!?
Don.

Which Windows? I found them in C:\Documents and
Settings\Owner\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\7.0\Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Settings.on my XP machine. Try a search on *.psp.

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On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 21:00:05 GMT, edjh wrote:

Don wrote:

PS6, Windows.

Where's the "Prefs.psp" hiding?

According to the help file, in particular "Looking at the Work Area > Setting preferences" the PS preference file is called "Prefs.psp" and is located in the "Settings" folder.

This same help warns that:
"The default location of the Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings folder varies by operating system; use your operating system's Find command to locate this folder."

I have!!

Not only is this folder nowhere to be found but I searched the whole disk for "Prefs.psp" with Explorer and it came up empty!?
Don.

Which Windows? I found them in C:\Documents and
Settings\Owner\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\7.0\Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Settings.on my XP machine. Try a search on *.psp.

I have Windows 98 here and the file was hiding in:

C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\6.0\Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings\Adobe Photoshop 6 Prefs.psp

Don.