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I was not able to find a way to limit a search entered at the top right of a forum page to the forum I'm currently looking at. Is there a way to do this?I know I can use "More Options" in the search panel presented after initial search, butI am currently looking at a specific forum and I know that I want to confine my search to exactly this forum when I start the searchIt is almost impossible to find a specific forum in the list presented under More Options, due to its "strange" hierarchy (e.g. try finding the Lightroom 3 Beta forum in there).Thanks for any hints.Beat GossweilerSwitzerland

Hi...Where? How?TIA...

Can anyone tell me if I should be ok to upgrade to snow leopard with my CS3?

G'day(I'm cross-posting this from here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2677169#2677169)On forum messages, there's a button to report it as spam.  I cannot see any similar feature to report a private message as spam.  Anyone know how to bring spam private messages to Adobe's attention (other than posting to the "report spam" threads here, which seems a pretty primitive way of effecting the desired result)?Cheers.--Adam

Adobe your service is an outrage, 45 #$%^& minutes and still waiting?? I've got a life to lead! And work to do! Now you've forced me here, let's see if I can get an answer here. My wife has Adobe Standard CS3 on Windows Vista, can she upgrade — or cross-grade — up to CS4 on Mac?A simple question that would take a couple minutes to answer, so STOP WASTING MY TIME.

I'm getting ready to purchase a new developer box.  I use a number of different applications, Flash CS4, Photoshop CS3, Lightroom 2, Dream Weaver and Firefox 8, plus a number of plug-ing and other applications.  Does anyone have personal experience in installing these programs on a Windows 7 box.  I'ver read the Adobe Windows 7 information but looking for some personal experience.Thanks in advance,Mike

A few minutes ago, I was in the process of writing a reply to this message in the PageMaker forum:http://forums.adobe.com/message/2678228#2678228when I was misteriously and violently taken to this old and locked thread in the InDesign forum, without my intervention:http://forums.adobe.com/thread/487684?tstart=0Naturally, I lost all that I had written.Anyone else? Anyone who knows how or why this can happen?

In another thread, I replied to a message from Bill Hunt, quoting him. This is the top part of my reply:The first line correctly says that I am responding to Bill Hunt, but two lines down he is identified as the_wine_snob. Curiously, the message to which I was responding also identifies Bill correctly:A quick search in other threads shows that the same anomaly seems to be affecting some other participants.My apologies if this has already been reported.

the final release of Flash buidler 4 can not intall in my win2003 sp2, but beta2 is ok. Anybody know why?

I hope that this time of the year, starting today and ending in three months on the day, with its many different celebrations of the prevalence of good and of the new year, all having a strong emphasis on friendship and good wishes, will also bring good times to the forums in every way.I send my best wishes to everyone that reads this, banned or not, here at the beginning of this long night, with snow glittering under the new moon.

I got an email saying i got a private message but i cant figure out why when i' go to my inbox there isnt anything there. Can someone give me a hand.

I use Thunderbird, and I was wondering if there was any way to have email notifications sorted into threads. It's really hard to follow conversations through email, since without threads they're divorced of context.If there's no way to get email threading working, are there any plans to implement this feature in the future?

I'm running Windows 7 Home 32 bit edition with firefox as my main browser. I can NOT getFlash 10 to install and work. Its driving me rather batty seeing as sites always seem to have flash content now. I've 'installed' it VIA the download manager many times. Uninstalled Flash totally, spent 30 minutes scouring this site for an up to date EXE file and installed from that. When flash 10 installs from the download manager it says it installed succesfully. And on that page that pops up right after I can see the little flash video that it says I should see if it worked properly. So why wont it work on any other website? After 3 days of this I'm rather tired of the matter.

I see that Jochem is still being heavy handed...http://forums.adobe.com/message/2671179#2671179Lighten up Jochem... All P Jones said was:"This sounds like an awfully fishy request How do we know this fellow is on the up and up?"There's no reason for him to report abuse if he wasn't sure... all he was doing was expressing an opinion and passing his comment for other, repeat *other* readers of this forum.But, going by what your attitude seems to be, it appears you don't like any discussion or exchange of ideas and opinions.In fact, in the very first sentence of his next para he says:"If the request is not my appologies."Clearly he had no wish to report an abuse for what could have very well been a valid request for help... as the OP posted in the last post before youlocked the thread...So, just lighten up...And if, i am to be banned for this post, so be it!Cheers...Kz

Hi all,I'm a new IT partner for a company who wants to know who has which adobe product installed and with which licence key.As most people are never in the office I wanted to do this with a Windows logon script (active directory).Anybody can help me out with a script (in VB for example) to collect all adobe products installed on a PC and the associated licence key.Thanks for any tips leading me in the right direction Best regards,Yannick Thread was locked by Jochem van Dieten

HelloHave I done a catastrophic mistake by being too late to re-activate my Adobe creative suite?I have had computer problems. When I in the end bought a new computer and tried to install Adobe, the re-activation time had run out.I did have a possibility to re-activate it off course, but didnt do it immidiately, since I was about to re-install everything in the new computer, and then problems arouse that delayed everything ...and then suddenly it was to late.I will contact support by phone tomorrow. But if someone can ease my pain, by hinting that it is possible to re-activate it, I will get some sleep tonight...cheers/Johan

Dear all,I have recently developed some visual effects (mainly transitions) that are both Mac and PC compatible as well as Final Cut Pro/Motion and Adobe Premiere Pro/After Effects compatible.I have read in the past countless posts about people looking for these effects/transitions (camera light leaks and other light transitions).While I would be delighted to show here, to Adobe Premiere users, a wide range of these fx,  I am aware that I cannot choose this venue for such purpose since they are not completely for free (though they are sold for a ridiculous price).So the question is, what site would be best to provide Adobe Premiere users with web links and info about these new transitions of mine so that users have the freedom and advantage to take a look?I am a FCP (6.0.5) user and Premiere Pro (1.5) user.Thank you in advance for any suggestion,Luca

I just upgraded to Windows 7 and Adobe 9 came with the software package for new computer. Everytime I try to download a pdf file from Internet explorer it times me out and I end up with an error message   "there is a problem with Adobe Acrobat/Reader. Please close and try again later."  and no pdf. Explorer closes and I have to try again all over again.Any help out there would be great 

I confess that it is really annoying that this information is not readily available.I have Photoshop Elements 6 for OS X. Is there an upgrade price for Photoshop Elements 8? I'm pretty sure I'm not going to pay full price, even with a rebate, for new versions.Thanks.

Today, March 10, 2010, the Adobe fora are offline, more than online. In the past, this has signaled something being done - updates, etc. Usually after these, log-ins are smurfed, screen names are changed, line-breaks appear without direction or warning, things do not work right any more.Maybe they are just reinstating the Attach File capability, but now I look to this as a bad sign - as John Fogerty crooned, Bad Moon Rising.Will be interesting to see what tomorrow brings. I will be interested to see what has changed.Hunt

I'm new student in dreamweaver, my first page is no showing in table 3 pictures in firefox, but is doing correctly in IE. can anyone help me in this?thanks yorkdesign

It would be nice to retain an existing avatar while it's replacement is awaiting moderator approval. As it is one must delete the existing avatar first and use one of the standards while awaiting approval. As they are only 128x128 images it is hardly likely to stress the system.Cheers,-- NealeInsanity is hereditary, you get it from your children

Hi!I have my original "dorin_nicolaescu" account with history avatar etc. wihch one day became "dorin_nicolaescu-PVFkNa". I logged out and back in and found myself in a new "dorin_nicolaescu" account with the same Adobe ID (e-mail) and password but no history, avatar, point etc.I'm trying to login again and again to restore my history with no success.Dear admins, please help.EDIT: Also, I've never used a more troublesome forum than this.

Ya, I knowm it says Jive.This forum refuses to work with Opera, either for Windblows or Solaris 10 x86 Unix.  This area for entering the post does not show up.I had to start Exploder and I HATE Exploder.What is even more stupid is the catch-22 in that the forum software is used for the feedback.  If the forum is broken, how the Hell is someone supposed to be able to let anyone know that it is broken.If Adobe wants great forum software, they should use what AVSForum uses.  It works with any and all browsers.

The following problems that I am reporting, have always existed with the new forum, for all versions of Firefox and Safari on mac.Interestingly, since this is mainly a design and art forum, my only conculsion is that the forum must have been designed to run smoothly on Windows PC browsers, with some lazy work on the mac side? Why this is, is anyones guess. Anyway …1. Conventional mac typing allows for the Option (alt) key, with the left and right arrow keys - the cursor will then skip quickly between words. All applications support this. This essential shortcut is not available on this forum. My main annoyance.2. Sometimes while typing the line just breaks for no reason. It's then sometimes impossible to join the two sections of type with delete. Suggesting that there is some basic problem with the stucture of the type, and the conventional carriage return character. Indeed copying and pasting text is  difficult to do, because it creates weird unresolvable glitches.3. There is a g