Post by BuckSkin on Jul 21, 2017 4:16:22 GMT
Lately, it seemed like my Elements 7 Editor had accumulated several annoyances and various things just did not behave as they should.
One new annoyance in particular really stood out; I would be happily editing along and, just out of the blue, nothing would respond; I could go no further until I saved the file, after which I could proceed with a few more edits.
Sometimes I might edit a dozen images without this happening and then it would happen five times on the same image.
Then last night, the crop tool locked up; I could crop to a fare-thee-well so long as I only needed "no restrictions"; the drop-down menu would not respond and the dimension windows remained greyed out and unresponsive.
Closing and reopening the editor did not help, nor did any amount of "reset tool"
So, with me never having any success using the keyboard on opening method, I navigated to the internal residing place of the Editor preferences file and relocated it to a temporary just-in-case folder, effectively deleting it.
After purging the preferences file, and after a mysterious bit of behavior, the editor opened right up and all of the problems seem to be gone.
Regarding the mysterious behavior, I had closed Elements 7 Editor prior to deleting the file, however Elements 12 had remained open; after removing the file, I clicked on the Elements 7 Editor task bar icon and, instead of opening the E7 Editor, the E12 Editor would maximize; it did this three or four times; I closed E12 and the E7 Editor then opened as it should.
Always before, E7 and E12 have behaved as two completely different and unrelated programs.
I have not yet attempted to duplicate this behavior to see if it remains.
With all of that being said, here are my questions:
1. What, if any, are the disadvantages of deleting the preferences ?
2. Out of curiosity, I left the Explorer window open where I had deleted the file from. I have been using the editor extensively most of the day and occasionally have checked to see if Elements has replaced the preferences file; thus far, it has not. --- Why not ? --- I had assumed that a new file would have been generated as soon as the editor was opened, but obviously that assumption was wrong.
Thanks for reading.
One new annoyance in particular really stood out; I would be happily editing along and, just out of the blue, nothing would respond; I could go no further until I saved the file, after which I could proceed with a few more edits.
Sometimes I might edit a dozen images without this happening and then it would happen five times on the same image.
Then last night, the crop tool locked up; I could crop to a fare-thee-well so long as I only needed "no restrictions"; the drop-down menu would not respond and the dimension windows remained greyed out and unresponsive.
Closing and reopening the editor did not help, nor did any amount of "reset tool"
So, with me never having any success using the keyboard on opening method, I navigated to the internal residing place of the Editor preferences file and relocated it to a temporary just-in-case folder, effectively deleting it.
After purging the preferences file, and after a mysterious bit of behavior, the editor opened right up and all of the problems seem to be gone.
Regarding the mysterious behavior, I had closed Elements 7 Editor prior to deleting the file, however Elements 12 had remained open; after removing the file, I clicked on the Elements 7 Editor task bar icon and, instead of opening the E7 Editor, the E12 Editor would maximize; it did this three or four times; I closed E12 and the E7 Editor then opened as it should.
Always before, E7 and E12 have behaved as two completely different and unrelated programs.
I have not yet attempted to duplicate this behavior to see if it remains.
With all of that being said, here are my questions:
1. What, if any, are the disadvantages of deleting the preferences ?
2. Out of curiosity, I left the Explorer window open where I had deleted the file from. I have been using the editor extensively most of the day and occasionally have checked to see if Elements has replaced the preferences file; thus far, it has not. --- Why not ? --- I had assumed that a new file would have been generated as soon as the editor was opened, but obviously that assumption was wrong.
Thanks for reading.
