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Run two versions of the same program at the same time in XP Home?

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  1. 2004/09/06
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    hotrod4x5 Inactive Thread Starter

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    I have both Photoshop 7.0 and CS installed. They will run seperately, but today I wanted to run them both at the same time. When I tried to run CS after 7.0 was running, windows just made the 7.0 window active and didn't open CS. They are both still installed, and in seperate subdirectories under Program Files:Adobe.

    I know I can do this in older versions of windows, what gives in XP?

    Thanks
    Rodney
     
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    I assume you refer to W2k as CS will only run on XP or W2k?

    I'm puzzled as to why you would want to run two different versions of Photoshop. Several files are installed in Common Files\Adobe and \Adobe Syatem Shared - I would think that only one instance of each file could run at any one time.
     
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    I haven't tried photoshop CS with my 98 machine, but I have run both 7.0 and 6.0 on my 98 machine and it ran them both fine.

    I have just upgraded to photoshop CS and have many actions installed in version 7.0. They do not automatically migrate when you install the new version. CS has some filters that 7.0 does not, I want to run the action in 7.0, then open the file in CS and run the filters. As of now, I have to run the action in 7.0, then close version 7.0 then open the images in PS CS.

    When I re-install the actions to my CS version, of course my problem is solved, but for now it's a pain. I should be able to run both versions at the same time.
     
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    As a long time user of Photoshop - and co-author of a couple of eBooks on PS I cannot understand why you want to run 7 when you can install the Actions in CS and be done with 7. :confused:

    Each to his/her own I guess :)

    - it won't run.
     
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    Of course I will do this, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I don't use actions a lot, so knowing how to do this quickly is not easy. Some of them were given to me on CD by a friend and I can't find the cd right now to re-install them on CS.
     
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    Go to ....

    C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0\Presets\Photoshop Actions\

    Copy the *.atn files and paste to ....

    C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS\Presets\Photoshop Actions\
     
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    Thanks, but I don't see some of my actions in that folder in 7.0... all I see are the 6 default actions. I know I have a lot more than 6 actions.

    A friend of mine who buys a lot of actions and makes some of his own, told me I had to do a re-install, I couldn't just copy them over like that.

    Any other place the installed actions might be?
     
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    Hmm - so do I - never looked at the actual file names. :(

    This is a bit strange - I don't have the default actions loaded in CS - just 4 Actions fron Fred Miranda and none of those show up in a file search, except in the folder on the hard drive in which they are stored. Sorry to mislead you on this - they must be embedded in PS.
     
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    Where is your common sense, folks?

    edit note: Content was flame-ish, not helpful, removed. Newt
     
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