Oh my, it seemed so obvious to me and now I see where the difficulty must lie and also this is clearly an issue

only with my set-up. All of which is very helpful. Imagine you are in Photoshop and you go to the file menu and pull

down to "open file". The desktop changes and you are confronted with a small or large source (desktop, computer,

whatever) which has any number of files available to choose from. However, the only files which are not "grayed out"

(that is: not accessible) are other file folders and if you open one of them, you find all of the contents are also

"grayed out" and not accessible. Well, clearly that isn't happening for you and it is always happening for me.

So, I go to the bottom of the page and see two horizontal menu bars and a check box. The first horizontal menu bar

says "Enable" and it is empty until I scroll down to the bottom of that menu bar and choose "All documents". Now

every documents is lit up and available. And I must do this every time I chose "open file" from the menus in Photoshop.

It's not the end of the world but it's a pain and it forces me to do all of my file loading from Bridge. I am assuming

(apparently wrongly) that this is Adobe's effort to change my ways and use Bridge more but that's a bit paranoid

for me so I have to assume that it's a glitch.

As I said, you have all responded in wonder and I don't blame you. If this didn't happen every single darn time, I would

be as surpriesd as you.

And my rig is a mac pro with Lion 10.7 and the latest CS6 Photoshop. I have been around the block a few time and this software

is a long ways from being new to me. If there is a hidden preference panel that I am not remembering, don't hesitate to

bring it to my addled pate's attention. I have no doubts that the issue is simply resolved but I'm danged if I can figure it

out.

Thanks for the audience to my frustration. I buy a round for everyone if someone can clue me in.

All the best,

Harry Abernathy