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tomb202
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November 10, 2016
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Photoshop CS6 woes revisited

  • November 10, 2016
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I reinstalled CS6 to overcome a fail at start up error.

The new installation failed similarly. Starting CS6 while holding

down the Ctrl/Shift/Alt keys gave me an option to start the app

in Administration mode. That effectively eliminated the errors

but now every time I start it it asks "Do you want this application

to make changes to your computer?" I only use it to access my

scanner and it's only an annoyance, no longer a failure

but if there is an easy fix I'd like to know.

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    Correct answer tomb202

    Perhaps change the locatetion of Scratch Disk or even deactivate it.  See this picture:


    I didn't see any way to deactivate it altogether but I changed it

    from C:\ to a scratch drive and turned off Run as Administrator.

    It seems to be working as expected now. I can scan again.

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    Sahil.Chawla
    Adobe Employee
    Sahil.Chawla
    Adobe Employee
    November 10, 2016

    Hi Tomb,

    Please right click on the Photoshop Icon and choose Properties, then go to the Compatibility tab on the top & uncheck Run this program as an administrator and click OK.

    Try launching the application after this and please let us know about the outcome.

    Regards,

    Sahil

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    tomb202Author
    Participant
    November 10, 2016

    When I uncheck the "Run as Administrator" line the

    application fails on start up with two errors

    1 - Could not open a scratch file because the file is locked...

    2 - Could not initialize Photoshop because the file is locked...

    It was to bypass these error screens that I set "Run as Administrator".

    mytaxsite
    mytaxsite
    Inspiring
    November 10, 2016

    Perhaps change the locatetion of Scratch Disk or even deactivate it.  See this picture:

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