photoshop elements 4.0 "attempt to access an invalid address"

[kerrip61416359]

I've been using my installed copy of PE4.0 for a while now, including up to yesterday. Now when I click on the icon to enter the program, or go to the program file and try to open it I receive an error message stating "attempt to access an invalid address." Not sure what happened between today and yesterday to cause this, but I would really like to know how to fix. I was going to re-install my discs but so far not finding where I have stashed them. The program was so reliable up until this morning, I didn't think I would need to find them on such short notice!! Was in the middle of some designs and now I cannot do anything. The odd thing is the bundled Premiere Studio 4.0 opens just fine. Any help would be urgently needed!

[MichelBParis]

kerrip61416359  wrote

I've been using my installed copy of PE4.0 for a while now, including up to yesterday. Now when I click on the icon to enter the program, or go to the program file and try to open it I receive an error message stating "attempt to access an invalid address." Not sure what happened between today and yesterday to cause this, but I would really like to know how to fix. I was going to re-install my discs but so far not finding where I have stashed them. The program was so reliable up until this morning, I didn't think I would need to find them on such short notice!! Was in the middle of some designs and now I cannot do anything. The odd thing is the bundled Premiere Studio 4.0 opens just fine. Any help would be urgently needed!

Elements is a very old version. It was not built to work with drives or partitions above 1 Gbytes.

What is the size of the drive containing your Elements program?

[kerrip61416359]

That makes absolutely no sense. I've had it for years and any machine it has been installed on has been an art/photo computers with huge storage drives - this one being the same drive it has been on for at least 8 years or more. I've never heard of any program that had a limitation, in fact, I had to upgrade drives to accommodate the huge ps files generated when editing large images. I purchased Elements because our work computers used it and I fell in love with it, and it was housed on a huge server there. And as far as it being a very old version, I tried the new one out and nothing is in the place that I need it to be, all the icons are different and I did not like it at all - plus I need for the program to be installed, and not on a "cloud."

[kerrip61416359]

UPDATE: Located my disc pack, uninstalled and re-installed. Fixed the issue. So if anyone else has this problem, that seemed to work. Crossing fingers!

[designl77861925]

Didn't work for me...

[kerrip61416359]

Sorry it did not work for you then. Mine worked fine - up until today after that last reinstall. - I just want a one time purchased program, not a subscription, or a network or a whatever. Time to go look for something else to use... I guess paint still works. 😞