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Photoshop freezing at startup on Halide Bottlenecks

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April 27, 2020
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I am trying to open photoshop and the program is frozen on "Adding extension... Halide Bottlenecks" has this happened to anyone else and is there any way to fix this problem...I am working on a deadline and need Photoshop to open as soon as possible...

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Crash or freeze

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Sebastián28560122i612

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delete Adobe Preferences folder in (/user/Library/), and done!

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Alonso Zevallos

Participant

This is the final solution!!!!

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gee eee

Inspiring

What is this aptly named Halide Bottlenecks? Why do we need it and/or how can we disable it? I already hit shift when starting up Photoshop to disable plug-ins but this bottleneck still loads. I mean it does say it's an extension but when I search my computer, I can't find it. Where is it?

Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

Its either a corrupt color profile or larger preset setting. Use the freeze on launch solution listed above.

jannar93524538

Participant

Hi Guys,

I tried all the possible solutions mentioned above but none of them work. I still get ' adding extention ...halide bottlenecks.

I'm working on a new Mac Mini M1. When I try to open Photoshop on my MacBook Pro 2015 it first shows the adding extention...halide bottleneck' but it swiftly switches to ' checking preferences and than opens, but on this new computer I can't get it to work.

Lightroom is working just fine.

Can you please help!

Thank you

MsCopernic

Participant

I'm experiencing the same problem some days ago do any one here can tell me what is that extension for?

Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

Its either corrupt color presets or a large preset format.

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Jonathan0C16

Participant

Hi Kevin,

I'm also having this problem, but don't see any large preset files as described in "Freeze-on-Launch" above (the largest is 787 bytes.) Is there another way out of this? No version of Photoshop will now launch on my machine.