Help: PS says "command or object not available"

Please help if you can.

I've worked with PS CS3 for months. Suddenly, when I started PS, it stated in several Alert boxes that several commands or objects are not available:

"The command "Make" is not currently available. The command "Feather" is not currently available. The command "Layer Via Copy" is not currently available. The object "layer" is not currently available. The command "Fill" is not currently available. The object "current layer" is not currently available."

I don't know why these Alert boxes appeared, or what to do to make the command available. Honestly, I don't even know what I'm missing at this point.

Should I reinstall Photoshop?

Any help would be deeply appreciated!

thrillme

Sometimes damaged preferences settings cause strange behaviour. Before you go an reinstall the application, maybe you want to delete the prefs file. On MacOS X it usually is located inside you Library folder: {your-home-directory}/Library/Preferences/

Quit Photoshop, then go to the preferences folder. There you look for com.adobe.Photoshop.plist, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Paths and Adobe Photoshop CS3 Settings. If you use another language than english, there might be an additional settings folder. Drag them out of the Preferences to another place, in order to restore them in case.

Now launch Photoshop again. With a little luck the alert boxes won't appear nomore. Otherwise - sorry... ;)

Good luck!

thrillme schrieb:

Please help if you can.

I've worked with PS CS3 for months. Suddenly, when I started PS, it stated in several Alert boxes that several commands or objects are not available:

"The command "Make" is not currently available. The command "Feather" is not currently available. The command "Layer Via Copy" is not currently available. The object "layer" is not currently available. The command "Fill" is not currently available. The object "current layer" is not currently available."
I don't know why these Alert boxes appeared, or what to do to make the command available. Honestly, I don't even know what I'm missing at this point.

Should I reinstall Photoshop?

Any help would be deeply appreciated!

thrillme

Dirk,

You had me feeling optimistic for a moment! Thanks for that, anyway.

But restoring the com.adobe.Photoshop.plist file made no difference.

Thanks again,
thrillme

On 2009-09-04 03:58:33 -0700, Dirk said:

Sometimes damaged preferences settings cause strange behaviour. Before you go an reinstall the application, maybe you want to delete the prefs file. On MacOS X it usually is located inside you Library folder: {your-home-directory}/Library/Preferences/

Quit Photoshop, then go to the preferences folder. There you look for com.adobe.Photoshop.plist, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Paths and Adobe Photoshop CS3 Settings. If you use another language than english, there might be an additional settings folder. Drag them out of the Preferences to another place, in order to restore them in case.

Now launch Photoshop again. With a little luck the alert boxes won't appear nomore. Otherwise - sorry... ;)

Good luck!

thrillme schrieb:

Please help if you can.

I've worked with PS CS3 for months. Suddenly, when I started PS, it stated in several Alert boxes that several commands or objects are not available:

"The command "Make" is not currently available. The command "Feather" is not currently available. The command "Layer Via Copy" is not currently available. The object "layer" is not currently available. The command "Fill" is not currently available. The object "current layer" is not currently available."
I don't know why these Alert boxes appeared, or what to do to make the command available. Honestly, I don't even know what I'm missing at this point.

Should I reinstall Photoshop?

Any help would be deeply appreciated!

thrillme

Hi,

Just saw your post and remembered having these error messages come up - it happened while running an action that hadn't completed.

Do you use actions?

Jad

thrillme wrote:

Dirk,

You had me feeling optimistic for a moment! Thanks for that, anyway.
But restoring the com.adobe.Photoshop.plist file made no difference.
Thanks again,
thrillme

On 2009-09-04 03:58:33 -0700, Dirk said:

Sometimes damaged preferences settings cause strange behaviour. Before you go an reinstall the application, maybe you want to delete the prefs file. On MacOS X it usually is located inside you Library folder: {your-home-directory}/Library/Preferences/

Quit Photoshop, then go to the preferences folder. There you look for com.adobe.Photoshop.plist, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Paths and Adobe Photoshop CS3 Settings. If you use another language than english, there might be an additional settings folder. Drag them out of the Preferences to another place, in order to restore them in case.

Now launch Photoshop again. With a little luck the alert boxes won't appear nomore. Otherwise - sorry... ;)

Good luck!

thrillme schrieb:

Please help if you can.

I've worked with PS CS3 for months. Suddenly, when I started PS, it stated in several Alert boxes that several commands or objects are not available:

"The command "Make" is not currently available. The command "Feather" is not currently available. The command "Layer Via Copy" is not currently available. The object "layer" is not currently available. The command "Fill" is not currently available. The object "current layer" is not currently available."
I don't know why these Alert boxes appeared, or what to do to make the command available. Honestly, I don't even know what I'm missing at this point.

Should I reinstall Photoshop?

Any help would be deeply appreciated!

thrillme