PS6 Windows: Elusive prefs file

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phoney.email
Jun 2, 2004
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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.

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phoney.email
Jun 2, 2004
On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 17:02:46 GMT, (Don) wrote:

PS6, Windows.

Where’s the "Prefs.psp" hiding?

Found it…

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…

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