beauh44 Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 Hello All, I tried finding some references to this here and elsewhere on the net with little success. Maybe someone else has run into it. I'm running Photoshop 7.0 on a P4 Dell with XP Pro. It used to just take a few seconds to load PS, but about a week ago, I noticed it taking longer. As PS loads, it (sort of) tells you what it's doing, and when it gets to "Sorting Font List", that's where the problem is. Today, it took over 2 minutes to load; CPU utilization is at 100 percent while this happens. I've tried the obvious: Deleting the PS init file; deleting the font list file; (PS recreates both when missing upon startup) I've moved all the fonts out of the font folder to see if there's one it doesn't like; I've removed all extraneous plug-ins from the plug-in folder. I'm fine on disk space on all drives. Once it loads, it's fine - it just seems to take longer and longer each time. I have not installed *any* software lately, and really maybe less than 5 apps *ever* on this machine, so I haven't introduced any new fonts. Anyone have any ideas?? Thanks much in advance!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimvanson Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 Beau...Does any other big prog like word or any big Adobe product like InDesign load slow?<p> If those are ok I'd check that my hard drive was not full & that it were defragged. Then I'd check that you still had your scratch disk. Next I'd reset all my preferences. If that didn't work I'd just say to heck with it and uninstall <i>all</i> of it then reinstall it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beauh44 Posted September 14, 2003 Author Share Posted September 14, 2003 Thanks, Jim! All my disks are fine as far as space goes - I defrag every night, I've reset all my preferences and the only other app I've got on the machine is MS Word (it came with the PC) and it's fine. I've kept other software off this machine so I'd avoid things like this - I guess that didn't help! Yeah, I'm pretty much resigned to a re-install. What's weird is that it works - it's just taking longer and longer to load each time. I'm scared to close it now - I've got work backed up - because next time, it might take 10 minutes! I've never used any of my call incidents with Adobe, so I might give them a ring and see if they can pull a rabbit out of the hat. Anyhow, thanks for trying! Best wishes . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimvanson Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 Beau...only other thing I can think of is to go to the rather good <a href="http://tinyurl.com/9a4q"><b>PhotoShop Users Forum</b></a>...(even if only to root around). I hope you don't end up with Dell saying it's Adobe's fault and Adobe saying it's Dell's...I just went through that with a video card / monitor setup. I ended up spending more on tech support's long distance calls then the damn card cost...me sad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitmstr Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 Did you install anything on your computer? what did you do different a week ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimvanson Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 Beau...I must be brain dead...just XP Pro's "System Restore" feature. Just pick a date before the problem started. If you don't go back far enough the first time just restore again further back.<p>I think System Restore is XP Pro's best feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Stein Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 It sounds like one of your font files has been corrupted in some way. I have also seen this problem when you have too many font files, but that is unlikely in this case. Try making a new directory and moving all (or nearly all ) of your font files to it. If that ends the problem, then move font files back a few at a time and see if the problem is associated with a particular font file. Good Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel_moore Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 Purely palliative, but you can always place a "~" before FONTS in the Adobe folder and they won't load at all. I did this when I upgraded to 7, and it makes a noticeable difference starting up. But in your case, at the rate things are going, it might keep you from going bald. At least for now. ; ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beauh44 Posted September 15, 2003 Author Share Posted September 15, 2003 Thanks everyone! Giampiero, the only thing I've installed in recent weeks was 2 plugins - Focalblade and Neatimage - both of which I've removed to see if they were the culprit with no luck. No other apps have been on it - it just started doing it! I thought about System Restore, Jim - but I noticed it a little too late and don't have a restore point that goes back far enough. That's a neat trick about using the tilde' (~) in front of the font, Jeremy - I wish I'd thought of that - but I did remove all the fonts (in several steps) but the dang thing just keeps doing it anyway. MS Word has no problems with any of the fonts, but it is suspicious that it hangs during that part of the startup. And it will start - last night it took almost 5 minutes and it seems to get longer each time; but once it's up, it seems fine. Oh well, sounds like I'll be talking to Adobe today!! Thanks everyone! Best wishes . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beauh44 Posted September 19, 2003 Author Share Posted September 19, 2003 The Answer: 1) Search for files(s) adobefnt*.LST 2) Delete 'em all 3) Restart Photoshop . . . Voila!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimvanson Posted September 20, 2003 Share Posted September 20, 2003 Beau... what is a adobefnt*.LST file? Where did it come from? & tkx for the last "just in case" post...cheers...j Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beauh44 Posted September 26, 2003 Author Share Posted September 26, 2003 I'm really not quite sure!! I suspect that it's a configuration file that Photoshop reads during startup which probably contains pointers to all of the font files PS uses. (I could be wrong about this - just a guess!!) PS doesn't bat an eye when you delete them, though - it just makes new ones. Apparently, for whatever reason, these files can swell up and that's what was taking the program so long to load. These instructions were given to me by Adobe technical support, but the guy really didn't explain what the files did. Best wishes . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gu_jovi Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 Hey,I meet same problem.Now OK. You may install PS6 again.Let it automation restore font problem. Then you startup PS6 before startup PS7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonadav_perry Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 I'm having the same problem with Photoshop Elements 2 under WinXP. It takes forever "sorting font list" on startup. Could not find any font list file to delete. Any other ideas? Has anybody recovered from this thing? Help please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian_prentice Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 open C:\program files\common files\adobe\ and delete the 2 .lst files, I had the same problem, and this worked for me right away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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