Choosing Image at bottom of "Window" Menu ???

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Choosing Image at bottom of "Window" Menu ??? Feb 17, 2017 19:57:52 GMT

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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 17, 2017 19:57:52 GMT

Elements 7: Lately, I have lost the ability to select the active image by clicking on it at the bottom of the "Window" menu; instead, I now have to un-hide the project bin, try to discern which is the one I want, and double-click it from there.

Is this a problem that deleting the "preferences" will fix ?

If so, I never have any success doing the following:

Quote from the old Elements Village:

Repairing Elements

Deleting Preferences

When the preference become corrupt Elements will do stange things and you may need to delete the preferences ...

To do that close down Elements then click on the Editor start up icon and quickly hold down the Control, Alt and Shift keys (Mac users: Command, Option and Shift). Continue to hold down all three keys until you get a screen asking if you want to delete Settings ... just say Yes. You do have to be quick holding down the keys so if you have problems with it try holding down the keys with one hand before you click on the icon

Hopefully that will solve the problem

Wendy

Someone (Sepiana I think) showed me a navigation path where I could manually delete the file and I am having no luck in finding that information now.

Also, if deleting the preferences is in order, I am assuming that I had best close Elements before doing so, right ?

Thanks for reading.

Last Edit: Feb 17, 2017 20:31:46 GMT by Sepiana: Fix quotation.

Elements 7 ~~~ 64-bit Windows 7

On a poverty-level Kentucky budget, a 24-exposure roll of film would have two Christmases and a summer vacation on it and we might have to wait another six months before being able to afford developing the film.
I still have trouble remembering that it doesn't cost anything to take thousands of pictures; it just almost seems impossible to be true.

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Choosing Image at bottom of "Window" Menu ??? Feb 17, 2017 20:29:14 GMT

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Post by Sepiana on Feb 17, 2017 20:29:14 GMT

I am not sure this is a case of a corrupted Preferences file. Before you go down this route, go to the Window menu on the top bar. Make sure that "Project Bin" is checked. When this option is checked, Elements will remember it and will keep this bin open.

If this doesn't solve the problem and you need to delete the Preferences file, here are the instructions to do it manually. Navigate the path below and delete the Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Prefs.psp file. NOTE: Keep Elements closed as you do this.

C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\7.0\Editor\Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Prefs.psp

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Choosing Image at bottom of "Window" Menu ??? Feb 18, 2017 4:50:48 GMT

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Post by BuckSkin on Feb 18, 2017 4:50:48 GMT

Feb 17, 2017 20:29:14 GMT Sepiana said:

I am not sure this is a case of a corrupted Preferences file. Before you go down this route, go to the Window menu on the top bar. Make sure that "Project Bin" is checked. When this option is checked, Elements will remember it and will keep this bin open.

If this doesn't solve the problem and you need to delete the Preferences file, here are the instructions to do it manually. Navigate the path below and delete the Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Prefs.psp file. NOTE: Keep Elements closed as you do this.

C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\7.0\Editor\Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Prefs.psp

Thank you, Sepiana.

I investigated the "Project Bin" check-mark; before I messed with anything, clicking on any of the image names at the bottom of the "Window" menu did nothing; after I clicked the check-mark ON/OFF a few times, I got it to working BUT only on the top-most and bottom-most file-names; any image names/numbers in between the top and bottom were still unresponsive.

An observation about that "Project Bin"check-mark: hiding or revealing the project bin via the button in the bottom-left of the editor window toggles that check-mark back and forth.

Before I make an executive decision, what are the cons of deleting the preferences ?

Elements 7 ~~~ 64-bit Windows 7

On a poverty-level Kentucky budget, a 24-exposure roll of film would have two Christmases and a summer vacation on it and we might have to wait another six months before being able to afford developing the film.
I still have trouble remembering that it doesn't cost anything to take thousands of pictures; it just almost seems impossible to be true.

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Choosing Image at bottom of "Window" Menu ??? Feb 18, 2017 5:06:38 GMT

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Post by Sepiana on Feb 18, 2017 5:06:38 GMT

Feb 18, 2017 4:50:48 GMT BuckSkin said:

Before I make an executive decision, what are the cons of deleting the preferences ?

First of all, this is what the Help file says about the Preferences file.

Preference settings control how Photoshop Elements displays images, cursors, and transparencies, saves files, uses plug-ins and scratch disks, and so on. If the application exhibits unexpected behavior, the preferences file may be damaged. You can restore all preferences to their defaults.

There's nothing to be afraid of. If you do a search here and, for example, on the Adobe Photoshop Elements forum, you will see this is the usual recommendation when Elements "misbehaves".

The Preferences file is where Elements keeps track of your preferred settings. When you delete this file, Elements will automatically generate a replacement file. The only downside is that the replacement file will have the settings back to the default. This means that you will have to redo any changes you made. For example, if you have rearranged the panels, you will have to do it again because they will be back to their original (default) positions.

As a side note -- Elements has two separate Preferences file, one for the Organizer and one for the Editor. The procedure described in my previous post will affect only the Editor's Preferences file.

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Choosing Image at bottom of "Window" Menu ???

Post by BuckSkin on Feb 17, 2017 19:57:52 GMT

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Post by Sepiana on Feb 18, 2017 5:06:38 GMT