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Grrrr - PSE

petey111

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All of a sudden in the last two weeks, my Photoshop Elements has been crashing. I can't hardly scrap a page. Given that my mojo has been crimped anyway, this isn't helping.

I fully admit, my version is old. I just have always gotten along fine with it though. I have 6.0 because I got it for an education price of $29 through a school purchase.

I am thinking I might have to bite the bullett and upgrade, but I think I remember some complaining about version 11. I'm wondering if I should get 11 or run down a copy of an older version, like 10 or even earlier.

Any input???
 
Hi Linda

Did a bit of digging and found this bit.
If the Editor crashes repeatedly or won’t start, often simply deleting its saved preferences fixes the problem. Start PSE to get to the Welcome screen. Hold down the Ctrl, Alt, and Shift keys and click Edit. Keep holding down the keys until you see a window asking “Delete the Adobe Photoshop Elements Settings File?” Click Yes. (Note that this does not delete the Organizer’s settings.)

I use PE6 and found memory a BIG problem til I upgraded (windows version) my computer - well bought a new one with 8Gb and higher specs - no problem now.
I also found changing (lowering) the performance levels in preference settings sometimes helped.

I upgraded to PE9 and never used it - just wasn't comfortable - much prefer 11. Personally wouldn't go for 9 - I haven't tried 10?

I recently upgraded to PE11 and I'm determined to start using it - it has a lot of positives - like loading styles, actions etc but there is a learning curve from PE6. But, if I want to do something quickly I always go back to PE6 :)

I haven't found anything "bad" about it tho. Have a look at the following site for more info.

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/learningcenter/

Good luck & hope this helps.

lostsa hugs6
 
i bought 11 and i'm afraid to load it!! i'm in PSE 8 now, and apparently 11 is ANOTHER thing that has changed completely. i am really SICK of learning new computer stuff!!! good luck.
 
Thanks J and Phyllis.

I have tried several Mac tricks for cleaning things up...file-system-check, repair permissions, deleting the preferences...Doesn't seem to help much.

I don't know what to do!
 
Petey, have you added fonts/actions or anything recently that might cause a problem? Other than that all I can suggest that maybe a recent update of the OS has created some incompatibility problems with that version.

Sorry no help at all really but thought I'd put it out there. Hope you can resolve it. Problems like this make you want to tear your hair out :hurt:
 
I do not mind the changes between 9 & 11 - reminds me of using windows- there are always two different ways to approach the same task.
 
:rofl: I am sure that Sara has loaded fonts recently...right Sara?

And I just switched from 9 to 11 and it bothered me for the first page that I scrapped...and then I was over it. And I'm quite happy with it now.
 
6 old?, I still love playing in 5!!!
I hated 8, but now we also have PSE10 and one of these days I am going to scrap my first page in it!
 
hahaaa! Diane!! you sound like me! they had to PRY PSE 4 out of my sweaty little hands before i would even try PSE 8. and now i'm trying to get brave and actually install 11....
 
:rofl: I am sure that Sara has loaded fonts recently...right Sara?

And I just switched from 9 to 11 and it bothered me for the first page that I scrapped...and then I was over it. And I'm quite happy with it now.

This made me laugh!

No input at all Sara, but good luck with whatever you decide to do.
 
Oh, this just reminded me of my scrap/graphic software frustrations the other day. When I started my Faery-Wings stuff about 8 years ago (ack!!!), I was using Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Designer for my labels as well as using it for my initial forays into digi-scrapping. I had to install this ancient software onto my computer the other day and is having a ton of incompatibility issues. When I finally get it running, *everything* is opposite of CS! I am trying to right click and move things, change text amd all I did was screw stuff up. Its funny how you get used to how things run in one program and its hard to translate into another one.

But the good news is that after a while I did get the feel of the old software again and was able to get my labels printed :D
 
I have been using PSP and I love it..but there are few things it won't do that made me look into PSE...so I bought PSE 11 and I don't have any problems using it at all...BUT..this is the first version I have used....there are things about it that I don't like because I can do better in PSP (SHADOWING for one and FILE SAVING is much easier and friendly in PSP) but I find certain things that are much easier to use in PSE 11....so it is a balance and for me it just depends what type of page I am making now as to which program I use.
 
Only about 15 or so... LOL

Linda - you know me too well.

I didn't think about fonts, but I know that's caused problems before.

Glad to know you got over it Linda. That helps.

:rofl: I am sure that Sara has loaded fonts recently...right Sara?

And I just switched from 9 to 11 and it bothered me for the first page that I scrapped...and then I was over it. And I'm quite happy with it now.
 
I didn't think about fonts. I'll have to check that. There was an update recently, which is what is making me think that it was an update and incompatibility with the older version. But I'll have to try fonts too.

Petey, have you added fonts/actions or anything recently that might cause a problem? Other than that all I can suggest that maybe a recent update of the OS has created some incompatibility problems with that version.

Sorry no help at all really but thought I'd put it out there. Hope you can resolve it. Problems like this make you want to tear your hair out :hurt:
 
Good input ladies! I might have to look at 11.

Glad to know other people become so dependent though! LOL
 
Well I have been using ver 10 now for about 6months and love it...............I also upgraded to ver11 about a month ago and I can not get used to it, I think they made a bad move in moving the tool options button down to the bottom of the screen......that is my main beef I think, it takes up way too much screen space..........also, I didn't initially like the layer/effects palettes but Irene found a workaround on that which is great and adding actions and styles etc are a breeze!!!

I also use the organiser and I don't like the ver 11 set up........... so at the moment I have both programs on my laptop, and I find that I go to Ver 10 all the time. the only time I am going to ver 11 is to run some new actions I loaded............ :biggrin:


you will certainly see a lot of differences going from 8 to 10, its a new ball game completely to go to 11 I think. maybe you should download the trial version for 30 days and see if you like it first Sara?? I would try both versions and just see what you like.


both have the mask layer feature now which is totally wonderful!!!! :)
 
This is good info Ona. I think I will give the trial version a run. I'm going to scrap tonight, so I will see how it all goes.
 
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