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MM in Carlsbad
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February 17, 2022
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Missing slideshow Themes in PSE 2022

  • February 17, 2022
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I installed PSE and PrEl 2022 (from DVD) on two Windows 10 computers:

 

1) Laptop - no issues

 

2) Desktop - On the first installation (from DVD), no Themes were present for slideshows.  After uninstalling both PSE 2022 and PrEl 2022, I reinstalled both.  Now, I have only the older Themes, none of the newer Themes (i.e. Cherish Splash Whirl  Kaleidoscope  Light Streaks  Geometric  Frames).

 

PSE and PrEl 2019 are both still installed on both machines.  Both are running Windows 10 with proper updates.  The desktop is ~ 5 yrs old...the laptop ~ 2 years old (running 21H2)

 

Thanks, in advance, for your help.

 

 - Mike Mc - 

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Correct answer Greg_S.

Try contacting Elements support. You can start a chat session by clicking on the blue Contact Us button under the Support menu at Adobe.com. Or you can contact Support by telephone using the numbers listed here: https://helpx.adobe.com/contact/phone.html.

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Glenn 8675309
Glenn 8675309
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February 18, 2022

go here:

C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Elements Organizer\20.0\Slideshow\themes

You will see a yellow folder, and a 1kb file for each theme.

THEN

Click on the yellow assets folder.  Inside that folder there should be more folders- one for each theme.

each will look something like the following: (let me know if your are missing any of it. (screenshot from pse 2022)






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MM in CarlsbadAuthor
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February 19, 2022

Hello Glenn,

 

I appreciate your advice.

 

On the desktop that is not showing the newer themes (see my original post):

I was not able to navigate to the themes using the path you provided but I did find them with this path:

C:>ProgramData>Adobe>Elements Organizer>20.0>Slideshow>themes>assets>theme 1 (see attachment).

I did open each theme folder.  Theme1 is identical to your screencapture.

 

On the laptop that is behaving correctly with slideshow themes:

I opened and inventoried the contents of each of the theme folders.  Of the 13 theme folders, I found 11 that had identical content to the desktop's theme folders but 2 had different contents:

  • Theme 20 (I believe it is the "Frames" theme - the laptop had 23 items, the desktop had 30
  • Theme 14 (I'm guessing that's the "Cherish" theme - the laptop had 32 items, the dektop had 4

 

At this point, I'm tempted to replace the desktop's files in those two themes with the appropriate files from the laptop.

 

Your thoughts?

 

 - Mike - 

 

Walter_H
Walter_H
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February 19, 2022

Hello Mike,

 

I also find the Slideshow Theme files in "C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\20.0\Slideshow\themes\assets\" the same as you. EXCEPT, my theme14 folder on my desktop has 32 files, not 4 and my theme20 folder also has 30 files.

 

If I were you, I would try replacing the desktop's files in theme14 with the appropriate files from the laptop. But, before doing that I would rename the original files on the desktop by adding a "~" at the front of the filename just in case you want to go back to the original.

 

--Walter in Davie, FL
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February 17, 2022

Try contacting Elements support. You can start a chat session by clicking on the blue Contact Us button under the Support menu at Adobe.com. Or you can contact Support by telephone using the numbers listed here: https://helpx.adobe.com/contact/phone.html.

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