limey

Got a serious problem with Photoshop 6.0. I'm using a G4 Mac, system 9.2.

Tried to open it up to view some digital photos I'd transferred from my camera. I'd viewed some of them earlier without any problems, but this time for some reason PS would not open up properly.
By that I mean I couldn't see any menus or anything else. I knew it had opened up as the icon for PS was there under the Finder in the top right corner. I can click on a picture file and the picture will open up ok but still no menus etc. nothing on the screen but the picture.

I've rebuilt the desktop with Disk Warrior and checked for problems but found none.
I reloaded PS 6.0 from the original disk but still got the same response. No other programs are effected just PS. Any suggestions would be appreciated

vogonpoet

are all your palettes hidden? pressing the tab key (on a PC at least) hides/reveals all palettes.

If you can see your top menu bar, under WINDOW pull down menu you can also hide/reveal the palettes separately.

Just a thought.

If its not as simple as that, then finding your PS Preference file, renaming it or deleting it, then restarting PS might work also.

hope that helps

kiwi

Hi limey


Can you open your images with QT picture viewer ?


Stu.

kiwi

Ah hang on 9.2 is OSX classic enviroment yes? Well PS 6 does not work in the Classic enviroment.Only PS 7 has been designed to work with OSX This is the reason quite a few people have been waiting before porting to OSX limey.



I hope I am wrong bud.



Stu.

limey

Thanks guys but I just got it back to normal. I eliminated anything to do with PS 6 and loaded 5.5 just to see if it would work and it did.
I then loaded 6.0 again and this time it worked , don't know what the gremlins were up to but I hope I've seen the last of them.

kiwi

Glad it worked out limey


So 9.2 is not the classic enviroment then?



Stu.

limey

It is if you are using OSX, I really shouldn't be using this version as it doesn't do anything for me until I load X.
I'm planning on doing that soon so I figure I might as well leave it on.

kiwi

Ah ok


I will see if I can find that info for you,because I think if you have more problems it might be because you are using 9.2 .The only reason I took any notice of it {the article} was because someone asked a question in Macworld mag whether they could run PS in the classic enviroment and the answer was no.......actual it might be on the Macworld site as well somewhere


Stu.

limey

Thanks Stu, I've been running this way for quite a while now and this is the first time I've had a problem but if it keeps on occurring there might be something to what you say.

kiwi

Hmmm I did some research in some mags I have,and I think it appears I may have been full of crap [confused] ,all I could find was that with OS 9.1 and the first release of OSX you could not use a graphics tablet in 9.1 and you could not use scanner import or twain acquire in 9.1 while using 6.0.1.This may have all changed by now as well,and I have no idea where I saw that info at all now so maybe I was the unwitting subject of an off worldy mind altering conspiracy plot by the triple headed alien Zorg from the planet LetsmakeStulookstupid [slick]


Stu.