Photoshop Preference Reset Fixed a Broken Lazy Nezumi Pro

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I was right at the point of emailing Guillaume at Lazy Nezumi today, after spending half an hour, and frequent Photoshop and system restarts, because initially, Lazy Nezumi was causing Photoshop to freeze, and eventually, Lazy Nezumi just wouldn't work at all. It started when I was using the Lazy Nezumi's Scripting > Loops function to draw a coil for a circuit board (I bet Dave can guess what that was for) and went progressively downhill from there.

I'd reinstalled Lazy Nezumi (keeping the license file) and made sure I was back to all the default settings, but as far as I could tell, the only reason Photoshop was no longer freezing was that I was now completely unable to get Lazy Nezumi to work — it opened, and the UI was fully responsive. It just didn't have any affect on Photoshop.

So I'd started typing a 'Help!' email to Guillaume, but thought I should probably try resetting Photoshop Preferences — even though it couldn't have any affect on a third party app like Lazy Nezumi, but that's exactly what happened, and I now have a messed up Photoshop UI, but a fully functional Lazy Nezumi.

If I was one of those 'We're all doomed Captain Mainwaring' and 'Adobe are the work of the ' types, then I might suggest that we shouldn't need to reset PS Preferences half a dozen times in the average year, but I guess it is hard enough keeping all the in-house cogs working together, and that when dozens of third party applications are doing their best to mess up your code, it's a mighty big ask to expect it to never play up.

So there you have it. Next time your car won't start, or your boss gives you a funny look, or your SO has a headache, reset Photoshop Preferences... your car will fire right up, your boss will give you a raise, and you'll have an excuse for sleeping through the alarm next morning.

Incidentally, and as far as I know, Lazy Nezumi does not have a preference reset function. But when you enter any of the various areas, a Preset Changes > Discard or Save option appears. Hitting Discard takes you right back to the default. Saving a new preset can be very useful as the range of settings can be large, and some of the sliders can go from barely making a difference, to a Spinal Tap 11, with barely a nudge.

Trevor.Dennis · Answer

Of course, what I _should_ have done, is try out my supposedly fixed system before congratulating myself on the forum, because when I went back to drawing my circuit board, Photoshop froze again. I have now worked out that this only happens with the tablet (Intuos4) and not with the mouse.

I started a thread a couple of weeks ago about giant mouse cursors, and Ged gave me a heads up on where to fix that. A few days later the giant cursors reappeared with no input (that I am aware of) from me. So I suspect I have a pointer issue. I currently have a mouse (Logitech G502), Intuos4, 3Dconnexion Space Mouse, and Shuttle Pro V2 all vying to control my system cursor (Oh and I forgot the thumb joystick on a Razer Orbweaver) so it is probably not surprising that it sometimes causes me grief. I use it every day though, and rarely have issues, and there is still the point that resetting Photoshop Preferences fixed it.

I don't really know what to do now. I guess I can turn off, or unplug, some of the pointing devices. The Space Mouse is useless with Photoshop (but amazing with SketchUp). I only use the Shuttle Pro with Premiere Pro, and I never use the Orbweaver, so I don't know what it is even connected — other than all those pretty LED patterns.

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