Photoshop won't open!

Uchiha Kohaku · 05-09-2006

Strange time for this to happen... I have been using Photoshop for ages, but all of a sudden it has just stopped working O.o I click on it, it open like normal, and is going through the initialization when BAM! It closes out. It seems to do this right after it says "Loading Brushes" in the little window.

Does anyone have an idea of what is wrong?

gunyu · 05-09-2006

hmmm maybe you should re-install the photoshop,that the best way

NEOD101 · 05-09-2006

Have you installed any brushes since the last time you opened it successfully?

Uchiha Kohaku · 05-10-2006

Yes, from this site actually. I thought that might have something to do with it, and removed them... but it doesn't seem to have had any effect... maybe I installed them wrong?

If you guessed that, I hope you have a solution... this is driving me insane ><

**Man1c M0g** · 05-10-2006

Hmmmm. It sounds like a file has corrupted somewhere. If you can't find the problem directly you may have to go for the ultimate response.... i.e. uninstall and reinstall. A bit drastic but it nearly always works!

potets · 05-10-2006

Happened to me once to, sorted it self out on its own after a while.
But you might as well reinstall?

mzometa · 05-15-2006

You should reinstall it, and start all over again. I tell ya!

Uchiha Kohaku · 05-19-2006

Yes yes well, I uninstalled and reinstalled twice. I still have the same problem. When I start it up just after reinstalling, it tells me that Photoshop's "Primary Swatch" and I think it said my computer's were the same. Also, it closes right when it tries to load "Color preferences."

This is serious, I haven't been able to fix it and it hasn't worked itself out. How can I change these... primary swatches?

allstar · 05-19-2006

why don't you just phone adobe and they will be able to give you adivce on how to fix it

mabye you haven't uninstalled it properly cause when i install a prog and put it on a different drive sometimes part of the programm is left on and when you put it back on it gets confused with what it useing

sorry if my explaintion it bad cause i know what i am trying to say but i am saying wrong sorry

kumoishibo · 05-19-2006

Yea, I had a similar problem only it happened when it was loading fonts. I have an unbeleivably huge font gallery so I thought it was normal, but aparantly one of the later fonts I had installed caused it to not load. perhaps try unloading all of your brushes to the default ones.

wile1 · 05-23-2006

Sounds to me like you might have picked up a virus. I was having trouble with it to and over a period of time it kept getting worse. Found out I had a horrible virus that infected all my exe files. Had to do a total reformat. Lost about 2 gigs of exe files on the computer for my poser. plus a lot of zip files also. Norton did not pick it up either. The virus is called Win32 polip I think and it eats exe files. I suggest you check that out. AVG virus protection works great and catches it.

zapphnath · 05-23-2006

Yes, it could be a virus.

Could be that, when you uninstalled, not everything was removed. This happens a lot. Most programs leave a few things behind.

It could be as simple as a leftover Preferences file trying to load a brush set that you'd added, but is now unavailable.

Here is an article that explains everything you need to know about the Preferences file and how to deal with it - http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/17478.html .
Another method is to hold down the CRTL-ALT-SHIFT keys when you click to start Photoshop. You should see a dialog appear asking if you want to delete the settings. Click Yes and see if it starts up.