Software - - PS browser question

mimiya · #1 02-02-2003, 10:51 AM

I have both PS 7 and PSE 2 and whenever I use the browser if I select more than one file to open the program will only open the first one I selected. Is there a simple setting I have missed? Also, if I don't close that file I cannot open any more files until I do close it. This doesn't seem right. What am I missing?

Ed_L · #2 02-02-2003, 11:35 AM

First of all, welcome to RP. I have a feeling you'll like it here. I guess I never tried to open more than one file at a time, and I don't know if you should be able to do that or not. But you certainly should be able to have more than one image open at a time. My guess would be that you might need to delete your preferences file. When you restart Photoshop, a new one will be created. A bad preference file gets the blame for some wierd behavior from Photoshop. Good luck.

Ed

CJ Swartz · #3 02-02-2003, 12:34 PM

Mimiya, I'd never used the File browser that way, but just to check how it would work, I selected two image files and both opened successfully, one after the other. So try restoring your preferences to their defaults. Here's Stephen Marsh's instructions for that process: restore preferences to defaults

How much memory does your computer have? It takes a good deal of memory to open two or more large files. What happens when you use the menu to open more than one file: (File-->Open ) -- any differences?

mimiya · #4 02-02-2003, 03:37 PM

When I use file-open I can open several files at a time that's why this seemed so strange. I will try to reset the preferences.....

mimiya · #5 02-02-2003, 03:44 PM

aahhhh....that did the trick! Thank you!

CJ Swartz · #6 02-02-2003, 04:11 PM

Yeah, Ed, thanks! I learned something also.