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I know this has probably been brought up but to try to find previous posts about it exemplifies the actual problem! Why does the initial search in any forum search all the forums first?  For this post I tried to search for words such as "search" and got every forum listed except this one. I only wanted to look through this discussion. If I'm in the PS forum searching for "paths" I don't need to find every instance of "paths" in every forum.Of course after waiting for an initial search of the whole Adobe discussion universe I know I can then choose "Search Options" to narrow the search parameters in that tiny little scroll box of every Adobe discussion.I hope this gets changed to search in the present discussion first.

Couldn't get access for the past hour or so, some sort of a maintenance msg was displayed, but now the speed is FANTASTICALLY better -- by a factor of 20 to 1 or so.Good going!

Hello -I was wondering, where I could update my e-mail address for my Adobe® account?Thank you…- Dimitri

i can't find the box for code like the quote box but one that keeps the box the same size and offer a scroller so that i don't litter my post when posting any type of code?

In another thread discussing the agonies of being unexpectedly logged out in the middle of making a (usually long)  forum posting, I mentioned a Wish List item of some sort of a script that would preserve form content (i.e. postings here) as we're entering it, so that if/when we get logged out before doing "submit", our breathless prose isn't lost forever. Dave suggested there might be something like that using a GreaseMonkey script.Lo and behold, there is a Firefox add-on called Lazarus that does exactly this.http://lazarus.interclue.com/index.htmlNormally I'd try this out before suggesting it, but two things make testing a bit difficult:1) the logouts don't happen often enough (to me, at least) to be able to test it very much, and2) it turns out Lazarus is by the makers of Interclue, another FF addon that I already useSo, if there's anybody out there who would like to test this, please report back whether it works for you, and I'll do the same.And, last but not least, I recently

as seen on the picture, i am bloqued out of forums for some reason but is till can post if i go from my email links!?

Where are the email digests?Or aren't there any any more?Or am I just not understanding how to get a digest from a particular forum?

Hi,I am new to CS4 with no prior experience on Adobe programs.  I would like to create a printable document that would allow a text message to be hidden by a red textured top layer until viewed with "decoder" red glasses.  Any help in creating this or pointing me in the direction of a sample that could be broken down and the hidden text edited would be appreciated.

How does one remove a child from the display list, but then put it back, i.e. reset?  I've found that once the reference is gone and set for garbage collection trying to re-add the child results in a null reference error.  For example if I have a bunch of circle instances drawn by the user on the stage, if I add a reset button and remove the child, all well and good, but it can't come back?!in attached file, the shapes are being made by ellipses.fla, whose .swf is loaded by FreeDraw.fla.  When I hit reset I essentially want to "reload" ellipses.swf.Any help would be really appreciated!Thanks!Davidcode for ellipses:var circle:Sprite = new Sprite();var color:Number = Math.random() * 0XFFFFFF;stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, startDrawing);stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, stopDrawing);function startDrawing(e:MouseEvent):void{ stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, makeShapes);}function stopDrawing(e:MouseEvent):void{ stage.removeEventListener(M

Nothing fits in the screen you must scroll forever. Its bad enough on a 23 inch monitor but just unacceptable on a laptop.

The top participants in the testing sub-forum  just now:Yesterday I was allegedly the top participant, which is definitely not so. Hover over someone's profile and you see recent threads - but they are rarely the most recent. 'More like this' is wildly inaccurate.I just get the feeling of wheels somewhere grinding and groaning, trying to calculate all this stuff and keep it up to date. I think we need to strip this system down considerably to where the software can cope. I'm not seeing much in the way of slowness but a number of people are - can't we put the extraneous fluff out of its misery and concentrate on the essential functions?Eg the current 'More like this' by this post:It just doesn't work and must waste 'fuel' somewhere in the effort to come up with sensible entries.

Searching for "virus scanning forums ellis" fails to find a message I posted containing all of the search terms:But searching for "virus scanning forums", without the term "ellis", does find the message:Google also finds the message with the full query, "virus scanning forums ellis".

What has happened to it?

Please, please, please - break the forums down more (more 'folders'). The infinite list of all discussions makes finding anything relevant almost impossible. At minimum break things down by version, when having an issue with CS4 I don't need to search through things about CS2. As it stands the only way to find an issue is with the brute force of a forum search, there's no just looking through to see if there is an active discussion - the signal to noise ratio is too high. Take a current a discussion, "CS3 and printing to an Epson 7800 (Mac OS10.5)", it's path looks like: i Support:User to User Forums:Adobe Product Forums:Adobe Photoshop:Photoshop Macintosh I'd like it to be: i Support:User to User Forums:Adobe Product Forums:Adobe Photoshop:Photoshop Macintosh:Version CS3:Technical Issues:Printing:Printer Setups Or something like that - you get the idea. And while we are at it, the search only needs to return one hit for any given discussion - pages of hits from the same discussi

When you post a question and include an attachment like a DXDIAG.TXT, is it NORMAL to have to wait MORE than 6 hours for it to become available? This is ludicrous. You can better send attachments by snail-mail than posting here on the forum.

Since the switch over it seems that less people are coming to these forums or at least less questions are getting asked. Has anyone else noticed this too?

This threadhttp://forums.adobe.com/message/1921550contains references to UNC paths. In the web forum, these get translated to links with href=#, and when the post arrives as an email, all the message contains is the '#' and not the '\ \server \ share' I would have expected to see. Could someone please ask the powers that be to rectify this?Noel

...continued from the discussion in the "Spam" thread after John C added the "URL", "Bio" and "Products/SysInfo" fields, here:http://forums.adobe.com/message/1930765#1930765"Edit Profile should now show places for a URL, a brief (1 line or so) bio, and a list of products you use."I know what follows is merely an academic observation, but it's still kind of indicative of the attention to detail paid by the Jive programmers. Thi post is meant to act as a heads-up for users editing their profiles, and as something that should be passed along to our good pals on the Jive team.I was concerned about the "...brief (1 line or so)..." limit for the "Bio" field. I wanted to test the character limit. I entered the following string, but WITHOUT the spaces (for a total of 521 characters):a123456789 b1234567890 c123456789 d123456789 e123456789 f123456789 g123456789 h123456789 i123456789 j123456789 k123456789 l123456789 m123456789 n123456789 o123456789 p123456789 q123456789 r123456789 s123456789 t123

Here's some more problems:1) Sending text like this: " [ No Parargraph ] style " causes the "No Paragraph" to become a false link2) I'm getting a lot of "& nbsp:" at the beginning of lines of code when I enclose code in [ code ][ /code ] blocks (copied and pasted from BBEdit).

John,I would like to pose a problem I have:I joined the webx Forums as pjonesCET under my email address (starts as pjones1@) and my name Phillip Jones.My Adobe Store Account is PjonesCET, with the same Name.Before the webX system died I changed my USER ID to PjonesCET with the same name.If I sign in under my email address now. It comes up Properly as PjonesCET /Phillip JonesHowever; If I sign in under ther USER ID PjonesCET It shows up as:Pjones, CET/ name is PHILLIP JONESThis was the Use rname I had when I joined the Macromedia Newsgroups Related to Studio8/DreamWeaver.Is there any possible way that both these can be merged under the PjonesCET ID I now user and do away the other. I don't care whether the post count I had with the other account carries over or not.I just want to use my USER ID PjonesCET and be signed in as PjonesCET as I currently am.

I can't find him in the people list - anybody seen him around or know if he joined the new forums?

(http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.xxxxxxxx/ etc)Will the new forums eventually redirect old-style forums urls?  For instance, http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b5c4e8/ should redirect to http://forums.adobe.com/community/lightroom/lightroom_sdk (etc).  My bookmarked threads, links within old threads, google search results (haha) are becoming largely useless...

Hi all,I cannot start any of the adobe softwares in cs4 with non-administrator account in my client machine. I already have full control rights for all the folder and harddisk, however I still cannot start any of the softwares. When I tried to start photoshop or any cs4 software, there will be an error prompt saying that the licensing for adobe product has stopped working and asked me to restart the com. I tried restarting, but it doesn't work at all.I tried calling the adobe support and the service person said that cs4 softwares can only work with administrative account. I cannot have everyone in my work environment to have administrator account, is there any other solution to this problem. I think this is a major security flaw in cs4. Adobe cannot expect everyone to have administrator right in an enterprise environment. Please help. Thanks

...it kills the "Full Text Editor" from loading. And since the link for composing a message in HTML  is wrapped in the Javascripted F.T.E., I can't access it, either.I just had the fleeting idea to try disabling Java, and then Javascript (and then both) in my browser (Firefox 3.0.x on Mac OS X 10.4.11) to see what would happen.SUMMON-A-MITCH!!! The pages load almost as fast as they used to in the WebX forums.Too bad it kills my ability to also participate.

I'm currently appearing as having joined the forums this April, but I've been around since around 2005 in my previous incarnation. Anyone know how I could get that updated?