Noel Carboni wrote:

 

For what it's worth I never use Bridge, except to check things for this forum.

 

I use Windows Explorer, along with a codec pack to make thumbnails visible in Explorer for virtually every image type.   I find using Windows Explorer as the system integrator is far superior to using Bridge, as it works beyond just images and Photoshop.

 

Thank you, Noel.  You have no idea how relieved I am to know that installing Bridge is not mandatory.  I agree with you, I think Windows Explorer is perfect for the images in my Pictures Folder.

 

You might want to do yourself a favor and get yourself a really good laptop with tons of storage, then get rid of the other laptops.  Maintaining Windows on multiple machines has the ability to take over your life and waste your time.  Quality, not quantity! 

 

-Noel

Had to laugh with the "Quality, not quantity" saying.   You might be right.  This laptop (my HP Pavilion) has 4 GBs and it's upgradable to 8 GBs, which I'm thinking is the best thing to do, instead of getting yet another machine.

Thanks for your input!

Bill Hunt wrote:

 

Glad that things are going better.

 

As for the two versions of PS (32-bit and 64-bit), the main reason for having 64-bit will be to take full advantage of your 64-bit OS, and the main reason for having the 32-bit version is to use 32-bit plug-ins. If you have the HDD real estate, there will be no problem having both installed. You can install your older, 32-bit plug-ins into that version, and use them.

 

Hi Bill!

Thanks for your input.  Now I understand why there were 2 versions of PS installed.  I do have some older plugins installed in my Elements, but I think I will just go back to the website where I got them and get some new ones for PS - that way everything is brand new.  And, yes, I do have the real estate for both of them.  yay! 

 

Good luck, and be sure to give your son a big thank you!

 

 

Oh, you're so kind.  I'm totally indebted to my Son for getting me on the photo editing train...   He's the one who gave me the Elements7 for Xmas on 2007.  I have learned a lot through that sweet program.  Now this amazing gift too, so yeah, a big thank you to my Son!!! 

All the best,

Amada

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Hello again,

I didn't know if I should start a new thread for this problem... (Admins - if you feel that this should be in another thread, please feel free to move comment.  Thx.)

A couple of days ago, after I fixed the Associations, I went ahead and opened my PS editor and created a small piece (probably less than 1 MB)  I saved the file the way I usually do when I work with Elements. 

When I went back to my pictures folder my piece was ok, but the PSD file had been changed to a PSE file!  I had been stressing out about some stuff, so I just left it alone.  The next morning I tried opening the file... everything looked ok, but it didn't allow me to do anything to it. So I closed it down and then tried to change the file back to PS, with the "Open with" option.  When I opened PSD it was totally frozen! couldn't click on anything, nor shut it down, the blue thingy was just turning around and around.  So, I had to force-quit my laptop.

I waited a couple of minutes and restarted the computer.  Windows opened right into the PS editor which was still frozen! with nowhere to go, I just closed it again and put the laptop away for a couple of hours.  I used my other laptop to do some stuff I needed to do.

Yesterday I tried calling Adobe Customer Support and the auto system said the wait was 1 hr and 45 mins long, so I opted for a chat.

I connected with one of the Reps there who told me to open the file and yep!  it froze up again!!  So had to force-quit and lost the connection.  I went back again and chatted with another Rep.  We went back and forth for almost 2 hrs and he had me do a bunch of stuff and we finally got the PS editor to open without freezing! 

I know this is getting a little long, but please, bear with me.  So now that PS was working again, I decided to make another piece (for a group I belong to, where we have challenges with photos, etc.) Since I still don't know much about PS I just made a very simple piece, a couple of layers and a couple of textures.  I saved the piece and saved the PSD file. 

Sure enough, when I checked my pictures folder, the PSD file had been changed to PSE!!  I took a Snip to show you guys...

So, what do you guys think? 

1- Is it possible to have my PSE files open ONLY as PSE?

2- Is it possible to have my PS cs6 files opena ONLY as PS?

I'm so hoping to get this issue resolved... I have been stressing out so much over this...  I have some PS classes lined up, but I can't take them until this problem is solved.  So, if you know how this could be fixed, could you please show me? 

Thanks so much, guys and gals,  I truly appreciate your kind assistance.

All the best,

Amada

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That's great, Station_two, I'm glad that you can use Bridge all the time.  If it's working for you, then kudos to you. 

Amada