P: No image preview on Open dialog box on Windows

The dev team has already given you the explanation.
We've already made our management aware of the limitations being imposed by the OS vendors (and it's a really long list). But I suspect they want to pick and choose their battles (really, it's a LOT of nasty limitations).

We are not blocking feedback - we're getting plenty of feedback here.

But Apple and Microsoft set the rules - we have to play by them, or ask nicely to have them changed. If you don't like their rules, you too can ask them to change, or at least improve their game.

Chris, trust me. If an Adobe exec is made aware of such user complaints, they will surely demand an explanation from the dev teams, and/or put pressure on the 'vendors'. Surely you aren't here to block folks from letting your bosses know who really messed up? Any software company and exec worth their salt 'wants' feedback, not blocks it, that's how progress is made.

I just hope at this point you haven't buried yourself so deep you can't get out.

sort of thought that would be coming, guess we just have to play to see what else has been taken away. Not to wont bother you any more.

Please stay on topic. If you have a new issue, create a new topic.

The part about Apple crashing is interesting, there are a lot of MAC users in the photo groups I belong to on flickr, and I have only seen one maybe two posts about Apple users having problems, since the release of CS6.

Going to have to see if I can get a post on this issue going on CNET.com, a lot more software users other than Adobe might be interested.

Because in future OSes, the open and save dialogs are going to be in separate processes from the application (which will be nice, because Apple's code will stop crashing Photoshop so often). Both vendors want simple controls (menus, checkboxes, etc.) as customization to their dialogs, not full blown file readers and image displays. The security aspect comes in because the OS locks down permissions to read files and folders, and has to ask permission -- a file reader/preview supplied by the application complicates that.

Well someone has to break it to Microsoft/Apple that something is screwed up, came across another issue in CS6. If the future vendor OS is the reason for this change then we would like to find the real reason, maybe they want to push their Impage processor package, and I sure do not trust either vendor, since they are backing the governments wanting to be able to put backdoors into the products.

Now for a new issue

Boy you guys really did screw up CS6.
Opened 10 RAW files in ACR6.7, did a select all and applied the same settings to all of them, did open image, all 10 open in CS6, go to save and it wants to save as a PSD, I select JPG, save file, go to close the image and the processor wants to save changes to CR2, next 9 file same thing, always wants to save as a PSD and also save the changes to the CR2 file. Each file is now taking multiple processes to just to save to JPG

In CS5 I can open 10 RAW files in ACR, do select all, apply same settings to all of them, go open image, they open in CS5, I save as JPG, no problem, next9 files automatically select JPG for my save as.

So your new and improved CS6 has a tendency to make work a little harder, going to have to play more and see what else is screwed up.

Happy to do that. The reason I wanted the contact info for people at Adobe was to 1) reiterate the problem; and, 2) get the contact info for the people at Microsoft.

I really have a hard time understanding how a preview is going to jeopardize the security in an OS.

I don't know who specifically at Apple or Microsoft you could write to. They've made their decisions, and don't change them without really good reasons. Both OS vendors believe that their existing previews are good enough. And they have security/stability reasons to try and limit extensions of their open/save dialogs.

As for Adobe: we have to comply with the limitations of the OS. Writing to Adobe won't change policies at Apple or Microsoft.

If you really want this improved: petition Apple and Microsoft to improve the previews in their open dialogs. They believe theirs are good enough, and don't want us to extend the previews -- so tell them that their previews are not good enough.