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Photoshop Question
Billy Precht, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Las Vegas | NV | USA | Posted: 2:50 PM on 12.30.04 |
| ->> Need a bit of help here with Photoshop 7. I am running it on Win 98 and for the first time ever its telling me I can't save a psd file becuase its locked and I need to use the properties command in Windows Explorer to unlock the file. I have searched and searched but can't find anything that will unlock the file. Does anyone have any suggestions? |
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Devin Dahlgren, Photographer
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Everett | WA | USA | Posted: 3:36 PM on 12.30.04 |
->> Right click on your image file and go to properties. Check and see if your the "read only" is checked. If so, uncheck it. If this doesn't work then I don't know what to tell you.
Devin |
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Billy Precht, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Las Vegas | NV | USA | Posted: 3:58 PM on 12.30.04 |
| ->> Devin, worked like a charm. Thanks for the tip. Never even thought about the right click on the image. Thanks and have a Happy New Year. |
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Devin Dahlgren, Photographer
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Everett | WA | USA | Posted: 4:44 PM on 12.30.04 |
->> Glad to be or help!
Have a safe New Year. |
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Leslie Billman, Photographer
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Annapolis | Md | USA | Posted: 8:30 AM on 12.31.04 |
->> Is there any way to permanently change that setting en masse, rather than image by image? I've had this problem too and can't find a preference that'll change the default to unlocked...
thanks. |
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Devin Dahlgren, Photographer
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Everett | WA | USA | Posted: 1:54 PM on 12.31.04 |
->> It actually has to do with the image source, not Windows. Meaning that somehow your camera tagged it as locked or the software you use for importing your images into your computer. There you have the option of tagging/flagging an image in the "lock" mode. It could be a simple accidental press of a button or software glich. Window sees this and marks the image "read only".
Devin |
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Kevin M. Cox, Photographer, Assistant
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Round Rock (Austin) | TX | US | Posted: 2:01 PM on 12.31.04 |
| ->> Leslie, if you have multiple images that are "locked" or "read only" you can highlight them all, then right click, select properties, then un-check the box and it will apply to all highlighted (selected) images at the same time. Is that what you were asking? |
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Leslie Billman, Photographer
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Annapolis | Md | USA | Posted: 3:52 PM on 12.31.04 |
| ->> Devin and Kevin: If I can't find the source, then I'm grateful for Kevin's solution to mass-correct, but would prefer Devin's solution of finding out what's causing ALL IMAGES to lock, and change that setting so it doesn't happen, and so I don't have to take the time to correct an entire batch. I don't think it's the camera as it happens with both the D100 and D2h. The message I get, as Billy noted above, is to go to Windows Explorer properties to unlock the file. Like Billy, I simply can't find that place in Windows. I generally use either Photo Mechanic or occasionally Nikon View to transfer images from the camera to computer, but regardless of which one of those I use, each image comes up locked. So if it's the software, it's BOTH programs. Now what? |
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Devin Dahlgren, Photographer
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Everett | WA | USA | Posted: 4:29 PM on 12.31.04 |
->> Wow! Really testing me, aren't you. I'm not sure what it is. Are you connecting your camera to the computer for the transfer or using a card reader?
Devin |
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Andy Mead, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 4:40 PM on 12.31.04 |
| ->> I have one Windows 2000 machine and one Windows XP machine. Whenever I copy files from read-only media (CD/DVD) onto the Windows 2000 machine, all folders/files default to "read-only". XP doesn't seem to have this problem. |
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Will Powers, Photographer
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Phoenix | AZ | USA | Posted: 6:25 PM on 12.31.04 |
| ->> Duh, I think your trying to save it to a locked disk (the CD) try saving it to another folder on your harddrive. |
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Leslie Billman, Photographer
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Annapolis | Md | USA | Posted: 9:19 PM on 12.31.04 |
| ->> Interesting. When I save to a folder on the hard drive, it doesn't happen. Only when saved to the cd. And now that I think about it, that's EXACTLY AND ONLY when the files come out locked--when I'm saving to a cd. So maybe it's something in Roxio that locks them up. I'll look through the preferences THERE, but if anyone has any other ideas, plse advise. |
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Will Powers, Photographer
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Phoenix | AZ | USA | Posted: 9:39 PM on 12.31.04 |
| ->> The CD's are locked sometimes even when they are re-writable. CD's can only be written to once (except re-writable). |
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Juerg Schreiter, Photographer
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Fort Lauderdale | FL | USA | Posted: 9:03 AM on 01.01.05 |
->> Leslie,
yes it happens when you burn the CD, I think most programs will burn it as read only. You might have a setting available in your cd burning sw to prevent that.
J. |
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Leslie Billman, Photographer
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Annapolis | Md | USA | Posted: 5:06 PM on 01.01.05 |
->> Thanks, all, for helping me narrow the problem to the cd burning process. I'll go into that software next and see if I can find a way to change that.
L. |
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