Photoshop losing settings/actions etc

[england1965]

Hello,

I have Photoshop CS2 and when I came to use it this morning it seemed to have reverted (well nearly) to its original out of the box install.

I had created a few actions which seemed to be there OK, but, the windows were all back to their default positions. I normally spread them out across my screens. Crop sizes had reverted to 1x1 , JPEG quality on save had reverted to 8 from 12.

The s/w was correctly shut-down (as far as I can remember) - is there something I need to do before shutting-down to ensure that my settings are saved correctly. One of the actions I created and assigned to a hot-key has gone for sure.

It only took me about 10 minutes to set-up again - just annoying more than anything!

Cheers

Mark

[tonymidd]

I've had something similar happen after a power cut. Maybe the heavy rain we had yesterday evening caused a surge or a cut. I was in the cloud burst on the M6 near Stoke, the rain was so heavy the traffic was only doing 30/40mph and that was dangerous.

[Stemmy]

mine does that every now and then.

It shoves all the palettes out of the dock and reverts all the custom preferences.

Dunno why but I don't loose my actions etc.

Make sure you save your actions to a separate folder.

[england1965]

thanks - glad it's just not me that it does it to!

Mark

[blueaerodynamique]

I'm glad it isn't just me either! Mine does this a lot and it takes ages to do all the keyboard shortcuts again too. I now save my workspace by going window-save workspace. I give it a name and when ps messes up again it is quick to load the workspace again. I have one set of actions that refuse to be reloaded but they don't take long.
Sorry this is so long after the original post but thought it might help.

[Bindii]

Don't be sorry...nice to see you posting instead of lurking..:)

oh...and I am so happy this hasn't happened to me yet (touch wood)..I would die....just die....

[BarryM]

Had it myself a few times, ive got shortcuts to filters and actions folder on desktop so no tredging through explorer to find them when things go end up. I also back the actions/filters i have on image drive under software. SO like you say, is a pain but 10 mins sorts.

Must look for that tweak that lets u open cs in under 10 seconds it rocked.