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Chrisn N
Chrisn N
Inspiring
October 16, 2021
Question

Photoshop Elements 2021 Generates Crash Report Everytime It's Closed

  • October 16, 2021
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Everytime I close PS Elements 2021 in the normal way (Clicking on X or File/Exit) it generates a crash report and asks if I want to send it. Actually, there is no crash at all. I have just finished editing and have closed the programe. Is there any way I can stop the crash report from popping up when I quit editing for no reason?

 

Kind regards

Chris

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Greg_S.
Community Expert
Greg_S.Community Expert
Community Expert
October 17, 2021

@Chrisn N, I had forgotten that the crash reporter has a do-not-show-again box.  If you want to try to reinstate the crash reporter, I'm guessing that it will show up again (when it finds something) if you reset the warning dialogs in the Edit>Preferenes>General dialog.

 

Chrisn N
Chrisn NAuthor
Inspiring
October 18, 2021

Thank you Greg and Walter. I appreciate all the help I have received.

 

Kind regards

Chris

Walter_H
Walter_H
Legend
October 17, 2021

Hi Chris,

 

I had that problem with my PSE 2020 Editor last year. It was caused by one of the 3rd-party plug-ins I had installed. If you hold a shift key down while PSE is starting, you'll get a prompt to "Skip loading optional and third-party plug-ins? Yes/No".

 

 

 

 

 

Answer "Yes" and use your PSE Editor and then see if the error goes away when you exit and close it.

 

Hopefully the error goes away - it did for me. If the error goes away and you have more than one plug-in installed, you can selectively disable a plug-in by renaming the plug-in by adding a tilde "~" at the front of the plug-in file name as shown in this screenpic.

NOTE: I put my plug-ins in separate folders, so I rename the folder by adding the tilde. If your plug-ins install in the main Plug-Ins folder, just rename the plug-in file that has an extension that starts with "8" (.8bf, .8bi, .8li).

 

You'll need to do this one plug-in at-a-time until you isolate the plug-in that's causing the problem. Then, you'll need to contact the plug-in developer to try to find a solution to the error.

 

Good luck!

 

--Walter in Davie, FL
    Chrisn N
    Chrisn NAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 17, 2021

    Thank you Walter. I do suspect that the problem is caused by a third party plugin. I have quite a lot of them installed.

     

    Out of interest, did you find out the one that was causing you the problem? I may have the same one. 

     

    In the meantime, I have checked the box, "Do not show again" on the error reporting window and it seems to have stopped. However, it was not my intention to disable all error reporting. I just wanted to stop this false positive. 

     

    Kind regards

    Chris

    Walter_H
    Walter_H
    Legend
    October 17, 2021

    Hi Chris,

     

    I'm not exactly sure which one caused the error. It would be in one of the three folders that have the tilde (~) at the front of the folder name in the screenpic I show. I rarely use those plug-ins so I leave them disabled.

    I could probably delete MetaRaw (from The Plugin Site), because I never use it. I do use the plug-ins from Human Software occasionally but the developer has NEVER responded to my email requests about problems. The plug-ins from DxO are an old free set of plug-ins that DxO does not provide support for.

     

    --Walter in Davie, FL
    Greg_S.
    Community Expert
    Greg_S.Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 16, 2021

    Are you talking about the Organizer or Editor?  If it is the Organizer, there may be something wrong with your catalog, even though everything seems to be OK.  If it is the Editor, I wouldn't simply ignore the issue.

     

    I'll await your answer before offering some other suggestions.  But in the meantime, if you really want to turn off the Adobe Crash Reporter, I think (but don't know for sure) that the following will do it:

    • Click on this link.  This will take you to your Adobe account's Privacy settings.  You may have to sign in to your account in order to get to the page.
    • Turn off the Machine Learning switch that appears in the following screenshot of the page:

     

    As I say, I'm not sure if this will turn off the Crash Reporter.  Please report back what you find.

    Chrisn N
    Chrisn NAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 17, 2021

    Thank you for your reply Greg. This is happening with the PSE Editor. This time I checked "Do not show again" on the error reporting box and it seems to have stopped. However, I would like to see error reporting for a genuine error. I can't see any options about error reporting in preferences. Thanks for sharing the link about Adobe's privacy settings. I didn't know about that. I will use that option if it starts happening again. 

     

    Kind regards

    Chris

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