Photoshop CS2 Help

[darb]

Hiyas,

I have CS2 on 2 machines ... the first one has CS and now CS2 coinstalled .... when i browse a bunch of PSD's in an explorer directory, i can see them thumbnailed.

Now, on my new machine, i have only CS2 installed (fresh) ... but i cant see the thumbnails in explorer.

Some reading has shown that it is no longer supported in CS2, and thats why. Which is fine. There is a workaround to copy a dll over to c:\programfiles\common\adobe\shell . Have done that, doesnt work.

So the next way of viewing a dir full of images, and seeing thumbs, is to use "file, browse" from within photoshop CS2 ... trouble is, that doesnt work on either machine either!

Anyone have any useful / relevant tips on how I can either 1) get the "file, browse" function working. 2) Get PSD thumbnails appearing in XPSP2 file explorer.

Cheers!

[leek]

File Browse should launch Adobe Bridge which is the new standalone application that replaces the old file Browser... You should also be able to start Adobe Bridge as an application from your Start button...

When you say File Browse doesn't work, what does it do???

[darb]

does absolutely nothing at all ... just pretends i never tried.

hmm ... cant see any mention of adobe bridge installation, im thiking this is the crux of the problem perhaps!

Do you know an easy way to check it, or where I may obtain it? is it meant to be part of the CS2 install?

[darb]

ps im grabbing a copy of adobe bridge now from the adobe site.

is it a seperately licensed product, or my existing CS2 license should work with it? (ill find out myself no doubt when this download finishes.)

[owen]

How about other thumbnails like jpegs and gifs, are they working still? If not then I have a fix here somewhere at work for that, but if it's just psd's then I don't really know.

Cheers,
Owen.

[Nnnnsic]

That's odd.

Upon every installation of CS2 that I've done, I've had no choice to install Bridge and it's gone ahead and done it for me.

[leek]

ps im grabbing a copy of adobe bridge now from the adobe site.

is it a seperately licensed product, or my existing CS2 license should work with it? (ill find out myself no doubt when this download finishes.)

It should come with CS2... and should install as part of the normal install... They are pretty much inseparable now...

[darb]

weird stuff! well ill be back at work shortly and download will have finished so ill see what the go is. Otherwise ill try reinstalling CS2 and see if theres something ive missed or stupidly unselected.

[Oneputt]

Darb you can select that Adobe Bridge opens automatically everytime you open CS2. In bridge of course you can view thumbnails in a size which you select.

If you select Edit/Preferences/General/ then tick box to automatically open Bridge.

[MattC]

Darb,

Try this to fix *.psd thumbnails in Windows Explorer
Download psicon.dll, and place the DLL in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\. If that folder does not exist (didn't on mine), just create it. This should restore *.psd thumbnails.

Edit: A restart may be required.

Cheers

Matt

[darb]

yeah did that, to no avail.

isntalled new bridge, get dll errors.

Am removing and reinstalling whole thing now ... back in a bit

[MattC]

Whoops Should have read your original post more carefully.

[darb]

hmm weird, have uninstalled entirely, deleted all remnants in registry and file system, erinstalled CS2, then bridge. Now when i load bridge, i get the following error ;

" The application has failed to start because libagli18n28.dll was not found. Reinstalling the application may fix the problem. "
(which ive tried twice.)

if i run bridge directly from start menu, i get the same error, but a different DLL, being libagluc28.dll

libagluc28.dll = does exist. its in my cs2 directory
libagli18n28.dll = Does not exist on my hard disk.

weird? Dont supose per chance someone has libagli18n28.dll on their hard disk and wants to send to me?

[MattC]

Email address??

That file exists in two locations:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\AGL
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Help Center

Have you tried doing the install from safe mode. Something really weird going on and I am wondering if there is something, somewhere that is running causing these problems.

[darb]

ok, a step ahead of ya ... found a copy of a few dll's it was searching for, and established where theyre meant to be by using filemon from sysinternals to see where it was calling the files from ... got that sorted.

NOW, i get a new error when bridge finally loads, saying ;

"Adobe Bridge cannot be used at this time because of licensing restrictions. You must have installed and launched at least one other Adobe Application to use Adobe Bridge"

Which is whack! ... CS2 is running, licensed and activated ... and running. As is adobe reader. Tis doing this on two totally different machines.

[darb]

ps, on a side note.

how do you reenable the "status bar" down the bottom of CS2? ie, where it shows progress of operation in progress etc? Cant for the life of me find it. Probably being very retarded. (me)

[Oneputt]

That status bar is an enigma to me. Sometimes it appears and at other times it does not. When it does appear it is most often in the middle of the workspace.

This experience is the same as other local users of PS. Likewise I cannot find anywhere to enable or disable it.

[darb]

like a good little lemming, i feel better knowing others are experiencing the same fate

[MattC]

ps, on a side note.

how do you reenable the "status bar" down the bottom of CS2? ie, where it shows progress of operation in progress etc? Cant for the life of me find it. Probably being very retarded. (me)

Look for this folder on the installation CD:
....Goodies\Optional Plug-Ins\Photoshop Only\Optional Extensions
The reg hack is ForceProgressON.reg.

I hope that does what you want.

Cheers

[darb]

mind emailing that reg to me ?

Ive pm'd you my email addy.

[MattC]

I'll post here for all.

Code: Select all

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Photoshop\9.0]
"ForceProgress"=dword:00000001


For those who are unfamiliar:
Paste into notepad
"Save as" ForceProgress_ON.reg
Double click to install

This one is ForceProgress_OFF.reg

Code: Select all

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Photoshop\9.0]
"ForceProgress"=-


Cheers

[darb]

that shows it across the middle of screen ...which achives teh same thign really, but i was also meaning the little status bar on the bottom of screen which shows numerous information things, including a progress bar during processing etc

cheers tho!

[MattC]

OK, gotya. It appears that it is gone forever in CS2 to be replaced with the bar in each image window. I had a good search of the Adobe Support Forum and that is all I came up with.
Most of the info from the old status bar can be found in the info palette. I have seperated info, histogram and navigator in three palettes on my system. Handy having a 1920x1200 screen.
The progress meter is something that I think we put up with. BTW, that reg hack forces the progress bar to always show instead of the default where it is only shown if PS thinks the process is going to take more than 8s.

[Oneputt]

Matt that could be it. I will try timing it to see if that is the case, but it sounds very likely.

[darb]

aight cheers ... the hack you gave me scertainly helps mate, it'll do.