Ande43 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 I just opened my PSE and the Drop Shadows that come with the program .....all but two of them have disappeared.....Any ideas how to get them back?? I have a couple other Drop Shadows STyles but like the basic ones better for certain things.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariJ Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Hi Carol, I'm not familiar at all with PSE 13, I'm old and ancient still back at 6! Sorry, but maybe someone else will know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becster Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Oh shoot, you certainly are having a rough time with 13. I'm using PSE 9, so I'm afraid I can't help either, but I'll be keeping an eye on this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariJ Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Were you able to get this fixed, Carol? I just tried a "search" but came up with nothing. Maybe try uninstall and then reinstall? I hope your shadows come back, that's frustrating! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ande43 Posted January 17, 2015 Author Share Posted January 17, 2015 No....haven't done anything yet.....still open to ideas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teecee Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Hi Carol, I'm not sure for PSE 13, but in version 9 you would need to delete the mediadatabase.db3 and thumbdatabase.db3 files, and allow the database to rebuild. Don't be afraid to delete these files - they will come back when the database rebuilds. Be sure to close PSE. For Vista and Windows 7 the path for the mediadatabase.db3 is: C:>ProgramData>Adobe>Photoshop Elements>Your Version>Locale>en_us>MediaDatabase.db3 After deleting that file, you need to delete the thumbdatabase.db3 file: C:>ProgramData>Adobe>Photoshop Elements>Your Version>ThumbDatabase.db3 After you've deleted both of these files, restart PSE and don't do anything at all in it, just let it rebuild the database which may take up to about 30 minutes. I have heard that you should not touch Elements or even do anything on your computer until the process has finished. If you see a progress message on the screen, wait for it to disappear, even if Elements tells you it isn't responding, don't do anything - just let Elements do its own thing. It will respond eventually. After it has finished rebuilding, you should see your styles in your styles panel. I'm not sure if these instructions will work in PSE 13, or if the paths are the same, but maybe it will help... Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ande43 Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 Hmmmm that did not work so well.....I have 3 instead of 2 now but have discovered other styles are missing several...The ACU Splashed only has one.....The SNU_Shadow Me has only one in the gray and two in the brown....Most I am not familiar with how many are in the collection.....????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariJ Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 OH wow, so sorry Carol. I am at a loss since I'm working way back in PSE 6! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ande43 Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 I went through them all and there are LOTS missing....only one or two in each collection shows up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teecee Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Hmmmm that did not work so well.....I have 3 instead of 2 now but have discovered other styles are missing several...The ACU Splashed only has one.....The SNU_Shadow Me has only one in the gray and two in the brown....Most I am not familiar with how many are in the collection.....????? I don't have ACU Splashed, but the marketing image shows 9. Syndee's Shadow Me has 21 grey and 21 brown. Have you tried to re-load any of your SG styles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ande43 Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 Hmmmm that did not work so well.....I have 3 instead of 2 now but have discovered other styles are missing several...The ACU Splashed only has one.....The SNU_Shadow Me has only one in the gray and two in the brown....Most I am not familiar with how many are in the collection.....????? I don't have ACU Splashed, but the marketing image shows 9. Syndee's Shadow Me has 21 grey and 21 brown. Have you tried to re-load any of your SG styles? Crazy....I deleted the Splashed one and had to install and delete 4 times befor they were all there....did another and it installed ok the second time....another one did right away....I may not live long enough to do them all over again LOL....also I have seen three times a blank little square box with a red line throught it...what does that mean??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teecee Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Hmmmm that did not work so well.....I have 3 instead of 2 now but have discovered other styles are missing several...The ACU Splashed only has one.....The SNU_Shadow Me has only one in the gray and two in the brown....Most I am not familiar with how many are in the collection.....????? I don't have ACU Splashed, but the marketing image shows 9. Syndee's Shadow Me has 21 grey and 21 brown. Have you tried to re-load any of your SG styles? Crazy....I deleted the Splashed one and had to install and delete 4 times befor they were all there....did another and it installed ok the second time....another one did right away....I may not live long enough to do them all over again LOL....also I have seen three times a blank little square box with a red line throught it...what does that mean??? Hmmm, After you delete a style set from the panel, when you go back to re-load the styles are you selecting Load Styles from the drop down menu, then navigating to the ASL file you want, selecting it and clicking Load? I think the little square box with a line through it is nothing. I have a few of those too. There was a time when I had read about it, but I can't remember exactly why they show up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ande43 Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 Hmmmm that did not work so well.....I have 3 instead of 2 now but have discovered other styles are missing several...The ACU Splashed only has one.....The SNU_Shadow Me has only one in the gray and two in the brown....Most I am not familiar with how many are in the collection.....????? I don't have ACU Splashed, but the marketing image shows 9. Syndee's Shadow Me has 21 grey and 21 brown. Have you tried to re-load any of your SG styles? Crazy....I deleted the Splashed one and had to install and delete 4 times befor they were all there....did another and it installed ok the second time....another one did right away....I may not live long enough to do them all over again LOL....also I have seen three times a blank little square box with a red line throught it...what does that mean??? Hmmm, After you delete a style set from the panel, when you go back to re-load the styles are you selecting Load Styles from the drop down menu, then navigating to the ASL file you want, selecting it and clicking Load? I think the little square box with a line through it is nothing. I have a few of those too. There was a time when I had read about it, but I can't remember exactly why they show up... Yup....that's the way I am reloading....I did the Gray and Brown shadows of SNU is it??? and they all loaded,,......I know, Gods way of teaching me patience LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teecee Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Okie dokie - it sounds like you are loading them correctly - I can't figure out why/how you lost so many. You should be able to continue to re-load the SG styles that you lost. If you aren't sure about how many are in a set, you can check the marketing image. As far as the PSE shadow styles and any other PSE styles that you lost, I'm not sure, but I think you may have to contact Adobe about how to get them back. Maybe someone else who knows for sure will come along... Hope you get them all back into place... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ande43 Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 Okie dokie - it sounds like you are loading them correctly - I can't figure out why/how you lost so many. You should be able to continue to re-load the SG styles that you lost. If you aren't sure about how many are in a set, you can check the marketing image. As far as the PSE shadow styles and any other PSE styles that you lost, I'm not sure, but I think you may have to contact Adobe about how to get them back. Maybe someone else who knows for sure will come along... Hope you get them all back into place... Thanks Teecee for your help....I'm retired....have time to mess with it LOL....and just think how all the old brain cells have been fireing away today LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eden Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Theresa is on the money with her advice. I've got PSE 12 and I load styles by copying them into Program Data or Program Files (can't remember which but it's where all the other .abr files live). I do this if there are multiple files to upload. You have to re-start PSE before you'll see them. The other way is the way Theresa described with PSE open and using the drop down box at the upper right corner when you have your Effects tray open. I haven't had to rebuild the metadata since I left PSE 9. I hope you can work it out; I can feel your frustration! Hang in there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eden Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Theresa is on the money with her advice. I've got PSE 12 and I load styles by copying them into Program Data or Program Files (can't remember which but it's where all the other .abr files live). I do this if there are multiple files to upload. You have to re-start PSE before you'll see them.The other way is the way Theresa described with PSE open and using the drop down box at the upper right corner when you have your Effects tray open. I haven't had to rebuild the metadata since I left PSE 9. I hope you can work it out. Oops, I mean .asl files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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