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CS3 cannot use Open menu...help Out of nowhere my CS3 extended version will lock if I try to open a file. The file open dialog will flash on the screen then disappear. The menu bar will usually gray out and clicking on any option gets me a ding but that’s all.
I must use the task manager to close the program. When task manager opens it does not say not responding… it says running.
I have reset the preferences… I have tried to use a old restore point but the procedure fails… I think because I recently install a windows vista auto update that cannot be uninstalled.
My version is 10.0.1 but I tried downloading a reinstalling the lastest up date but it made no difference.
If I open a raw file then take it to CS3 I can work on it and save it but cannot open any other files… It seems the trouble is confined to the open… open as dialogs. Seems to go into a loop of some kind.
I am using Vista… with 4 gig of memory.
Butch
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Re: CS3 cannot use Open menu...help Thanks John... that is the first thing I tried.. did not work. The dialog box does flash in the correct location but then disappears.
Re: CS3 cannot use Open menu...help I do hate to post this update…it just shows what an idiot I am BUT…
Let me explain the weird behavior one more time.
When I clicked on “Open” or “Open as” the dialog would either not appear or flash and disappear. The Main Menu would gray out and clicking on it resulted in a ding or no response at all.
I have spent almost three days trying to solve the problem… including a reinstall… in which I managed to loose my actions.
NOTHING worked. I could not close except with the task manager. In the task manager it stated Photoshop was running not “ Not responding” very confusing.
OK… today out of frustration I hit “Escape”!!!! Guess what… the menu came back and the next time I hit open it opened correctly.
I hate computers!!!!
Butch
Re: CS3 cannot use Open menu...help
I hit “Escape”!!!!
<making frantic notes>
Re: CS3 cannot use Open menu...help "I hate computers!!!! "
copy!!!
Re: CS3 cannot use Open menu...help This was doing my head in as well.
I registered just to give the big thumbs up on the "escape" fix.
Plus to confirm that it wasn't just you.
I am running dual 22" screens and after the fix, when the open dialogue box came up it happened to be stretched out across both screens which was weird. It may be the reason the problem started with in the first place although I have never needed to stretch the open dialogue box over two screens ever.
Still it saved me a re-install of Photoshop which was my next move.