Col settings & prefs revert themselves?

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frankg
Jun 1, 2006
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why would the col prefs and preferences that have been set and used for months all of a sudden be gone and some ‘default’ ones be there & used instead ?
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Tacit
Jun 1, 2006
In article <daAfg.1449$>,
"franko" wrote:

why would the col prefs and preferences that have been set and used for months all of a sudden be gone and some ‘default’ ones be there & used instead ?

Because your preferences file has been damaged or corrupted, or you are logged in to Windows or Mac OS X with a different user, or for some reason you no longer have access to the directory where the preferences files are stored; or because you have hard disk corruption or hard disk directory damage; or because you or someone else has either accidentally changed the settings or instructed Photoshop to purge its preferences files.

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frankg
Jun 1, 2006
"tacit" wrote in message
In article <daAfg.1449$>,
"franko" wrote:

why would the col prefs and preferences that have been set and used for months all of a sudden be gone and some ‘default’ ones be there & used instead ?

Because your preferences file has been damaged or corrupted, or you are logged in to Windows or Mac OS X with a different user, or for some reason you no longer have access to the directory where the preferences files are stored; or because you have hard disk corruption or hard disk directory damage; or because you or someone else has either accidentally changed the settings or instructed Photoshop to purge its preferences files.

could it happen as a result of defragmenting the hard drive (using xp built in defragger)
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Tacit
Jun 2, 2006
In article <bDCfg.2882$>,
"franko" wrote:

could it happen as a result of defragmenting the hard drive (using xp built in defragger)

Defragmenting a hard drive should not change any of the information on the drive; defragmenting, by itself, should have no effect on Photoshop’s behavior.

However, it’s always a good idea to check a disk for damage before defragmenting it. If the disk has directory damage, defragmenting may result in loss of data.

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