Comments on: Fix Photoshop CS3 missing scratch disk problem in OS X

By: zach

zach — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:37:58 +0000

Just click command option and hit the application icon. You can designate which drive to use as scratch disk. Problem solved in 10 seconds.

By: Stephen McConnell

Stephen McConnell — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:10:22 +0000

You don’t need to do all of this!!!!!!!!

Just delete your Photoshop preferences.

/Users//Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CS (number) Settings/Adobe PhotoShop CS(number) Prefs.psp.

empty trash and reboot….

Works like a champ…

By: urs0polar

urs0polar — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:34:54 +0000

This is the easy ownership option for CS3

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/406/kb406213.html

By: JWinter

JWinter — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:35:36 +0000

Try this before anything:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/333/333730.html
It is a CS2 solution but I had this same problem on CS3 and just fixed it with the above solution. Much less painful than a complete reformat or even a new user account.

By: geoffrey

geoffrey — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:16:13 +0000

BEFORE trying any of those try removing your preference files for Photoshop. Make sure Photoshop is NOT running. Go to yourusername/Library/Preferences/ and you’ll see at least a folder and a file with the word Photoshop in them. Delete those and any other files in the Preferences folder that have the word Photoshop in the title. Restart your computer. This worked for me, I hope it works for you.

By: crayform

crayform — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:03:56 +0000

Whew! Thank you for the tip Mike D! I was playing around with settings and set-up my external HD as the scratch disk. After that Photoshop wouldn’t start. Thanks to three simple keys it’s back!

By: LAW

LAW — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:40:34 +0000

Thank you for this tutorial.

By: Mike D

Mike D — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:28:17 +0000

Reset Photoshop CS3 Preferences

Photoshop is so highly customizable. You can drag out panels and even icons within panels as well as make dozens various presets. This is often good. Unless once in a while you did something and didn’t know how to get it back. Or if you are trying to follow a tutorial either in a book or online and your screen does not looks like the screen shots because your configurations had been customized.

There is a way to reset all your customization back to the Photoshop default factory setting. Your preferences and customizations are stored in a Photoshop CS3 preference files. If you hold down the three modifier keys Ctrl-Alt-Shift in Windows (Command-Option-Shift in the Mac) while starting up Photoshop, then Photoshop will give you the following prompt…

Click “Yes” and Photoshop will delete your preference file. This bring all settings back to factory default settings.

Make sure the three keys are already depress when Photoshop starts. And hold the keys down long enough during the startup process until you see the prompt.

By: sepa

sepa — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:29:11 +0000

hi, just wanted to add my solution that was inspired by this excellent post and it is so painless you wont even feel it

steps as below:

* Backup your hardrive – use SuperDuper or CCC. (very optional but recommended)
* Ensure that you have the root account enabled.
* Log-out of your current account and log-in as root.
* Open System Preferences > Accounts
* ctrl + click on your account icon listed in “Other Accounts”, you will see an “Advanced Options” context menu, click on it.
* in the advanced options window click on the “Create New” button for the UUID field.
* Click OK and exit root account, login to your account and try to open photoshop, hopefully it will open itself to you.

i hope it is useful for someone!!

By: Karl Hardisty

Karl Hardisty — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:07:35 +0000

Hasnain,

I wish I had come across this post about 12 hours earlier! I downloaded mono-lingual today, and played around with it a while, before deciding to run it. 10 seconds after running it I had a thought that it may send Time Machine into fits, so cancelled. Hopefully not too much will result from this moment of insanity (especially in today’s world of 1TB hard drives).

Derek, in future I will follow your example and either run the app immediately after a fresh bake, or not at all.