Lost Layer Effects window...

Running PS7 in Win2000, and while the computer is usually on a 2-monitor system, I recently had to move it over to another location with only one monitor (a projector) to make a presentation. After I moved it back, I now have a problem with PS. The Layer Effects window appears to be opening up on some off-screen location, and I can't find it. I recall this happening before with either other programs or maybe earlier versions. I was able to fix it by deleting the .ini or .cfg file and letting the program create a new one. But this version doesn't seem to have a .ini or .cfg file, so it must be saving these settings elsewhere. The "Reset Palette Locations" option in the Window menu doesn't fix it. Switching monitors (either through the Windows settings or by physically swapping the plugs) didn't help. I'm at a loss here. Any ideas?

Darrel Hoffman wrote:

Running PS7 in Win2000, and while the computer is usually on a 2-monitor system, I recently had to move it over to another location with only one monitor (a projector) to make a presentation. After I moved it back, I now have a problem with PS. The Layer Effects window appears to be opening up on some off-screen location, and I can't find it. I recall this happening before with either other programs or maybe earlier versions. I was able to fix it by deleting the .ini or .cfg file and letting the program create a new one. But this version doesn't seem to have a .ini or .cfg file, so it must be saving these settings elsewhere. The "Reset Palette Locations" option in the Window menu doesn't fix it. Switching monitors (either through the Windows settings or by physically swapping the plugs) didn't help. I'm at a loss here. Any ideas?

Windows>Workspace>Save Workspace. Save it with a name, then Windows>Workspace>Reset Palettes. When you go back to two monitors you can load the Workspace you saved.

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Running PS7 in Win2000, and while the computer is usually on a 2-monitor system, I recently had to move it over to another location with only one monitor (a projector) to make a presentation. After I moved it back, I now have a problem with PS. The Layer Effects window appears to be opening up on some off-screen location, and I can't find it. I recall this happening before with either other programs or maybe earlier versions. I was able to fix it by deleting the .ini or .cfg file and letting the program create a new one. But this version doesn't seem to have a .ini or .cfg file, so it must be saving these settings elsewhere. The "Reset Palette Locations" option in the Window menu doesn't fix it. Switching monitors (either through the Windows settings or by physically swapping the plugs) didn't help. I'm at a loss here. Any ideas?

if all else fails starting PS while holding Alt-Shift-Ctrl could help you out. PS will then ask you if you want to lose the current preferences (permanently). Click yes and all is back to default.

HTH
Pjotr

Windows>Workspace>Save Workspace. Save it with a name, then Windows>Workspace>Reset Palettes. When you go back to two monitors you can load the Workspace you saved.

Will keep that in mind next time, but it doesn't really help now...

if all else fails starting PS while holding Alt-Shift-Ctrl could help

you

out. PS will then ask you if you want to lose the current preferences (permanently). Click yes and all is back to default.

That did it. Thanks. Is that a documented feature? Seems just a tad obscure...

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:25:17 -0400, "Darrel Hoffman" wrote:

if all else fails starting PS while holding Alt-Shift-Ctrl could help

you

out. PS will then ask you if you want to lose the current preferences (permanently). Click yes and all is back to default.

That did it. Thanks. Is that a documented feature? Seems just a tad obscure...

Obscure features in Photoshop? Never!

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Darrel Hoffman wrote:

Windows>Workspace>Save Workspace. Save it with a name, then Windows>Workspace>Reset Palettes. When you go back to two monitors you can load the Workspace you saved.

Will keep that in mind next time, but it doesn't really help now...

Did you try it? It should work but since you trashed prefs that doesn't matter.

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Will keep that in mind next time, but it doesn't really help now...

Did you try it? It should work but since you trashed prefs that

doesn't

matter.

Yeah, as I said in the original post, the Reset Palette Locations command didn't work. It moved all the other palettes, but the Layer Effects one was still missing. If I'd saved the workspace before moving the computer, I probably would've been able to restore it afterwards, but in this case, it was too late, the damage was already done. Anyways, trashing the prefs worked, though it was a pretty arcane trick to do that. (I wonder why they made that so difficult to find? Previously I remember I could just delete an .ini or .cfg file or something, and then it would work. I never would've figured out the Ctrl-Alt-Shift thing by myself...)

Darrel Hoffman wrote:

if all else fails starting PS while holding Alt-Shift-Ctrl could help you out. PS will then ask you if you want to lose the current preferences (permanently). Click yes and all is back to default.

That did it. Thanks. Is that a documented feature? Seems just a tad obscure...

You're welcome! I have since long lost the fine line between Easter Egg and Doccumented Feature in PS. I read this one in some tutorial to be honest, haven't checked the manuals yet... It's probably in there somewhere. Obscure stuff is what gives us Photoshoppies the Elite Status! I love it. Perhaps we could further boost it by arguing the manuals and descriptive text should come in Latin next versions!
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