Corrupt Brushes Files

[In_the_gym]

I am having problems with my calligraphic.abr and faux finish brushes.abr files. Somehow they have been changed. They now have the same brushes in each file. I checked the file dates and they are different than the other brushes files (date of around 2004). I thought I could get it from the PSE disc, but a search does not bring up the file. I have tried to do a repair install, but I keep getting a window asking for disc 1, and the disc is already in the drive.

I recently had a corrupt bevels style file. I did a search on the forum and saw that someone had the same problem and it was resoved after someone posted the file in a thread. Is it possible that someone could do the same for these two files? Or does someone have another suggestion on how I get the original files back. :confused: :confused:

Any help would be appreciated !

Thanks - Dawn:)

[Benny Pedersen]

nothing.zip

[In_the_gym]

Thanks so much Benny ! Got the zip file, but it only contained the calligraphic brush file. Any chance you could also send the faux finish brush file too? Do you have any clue as to why I cannot retrieve these files from my PSE3 disc?

Thanks again !
Dawn

[Wendy]

Hi Dawn ...

Its not possible to find parts of Elements on your software disk ... it installs as a whole program and the brushes are inside it :)

Wendy

[In_the_gym]

Hi Dawn ...

Its not possible to find parts of Elements on your software disk ... it installs as a whole program and the brushes are inside it :)

Wendy

Thanks Wendy ! I had never tried to copy files from an install disc before. Glad to know that it can't be done, rather than I just wasn't smart enough to figure it out!

I seem to be having a lot of trouble all of a sudden with PSE3. After I copied the calligraphic brush set that Benny gave me, I noticed that the square brush set is messed up also. And just 5 minutes ago, the bevels style and inner glow files got changed again. It gives the error that the style is not compatible with my version of photoshop, and the file date is now today's date rather than 10/2004. Luckily, I found the thread here at the forum that I got the bevels style file from before. Once I copied it, the bevels worked and the inner glow was back to normal. Now I'm beginning to hear creepy music playing in the background (whoooo-wheeeeee-oooooo) ! LOL LOL

With all that said, will I just have to see if other users can send me the files that seem to be messed up?

Dawn

Edit: I went back to photoshop -- it was not inner glows that was not working, it was inner shadows -- and it is still not working. So I'm still in need of:

faux finish brushes.abr
square brushes.abr
inner shadows.asl

[Wendy]

Hi ...

With so many of them becoming corrupt it may be better to uninstall Elements and then do a fresh install :)

Wendy

[kimi_boo]

I am wondering if you have installed any filters or plug-ins lately? I know a few people have had their programs go screwy from that. :eek:

[BrianZero]

Never tries this ... But
Can the installed brush [Or any ] files be copied ? from wherever they are
and installed as you would a new third party brush set ??

Obviously not anything to to do with the operational files for PSE
but data files should transfer fro another PC ??

Email attachment ?

Now - if you had a backup regime such as Norton Ghost - thats where they would be safe [maybe]

[In_the_gym]

Hi ...

With so many of them becoming corrupt it may be better to uninstall Elements and then do a fresh install :)

Wendy

Thanks again Wendy ! I may have to try that. If I uninstall, what happens to all the extra layer styles, plugins, and actions that I have installed?

Dawn:(

[In_the_gym]

I am wondering if you have installed any filters or plug-ins lately? I know a few people have had their programs go screwy from that. :eek:

Hi Kimi ! I added a few actions a couple of weeks ago. Everything seemed to be working fine until yesterday.:confused:

[In_the_gym]

Never tries this ... But
Can the installed brush [Or any ] files be copied ? from wherever they are
and installed as you would a new third party brush set ??

Obviously not anything to to do with the operational files for PSE
but data files should transfer fro another PC ??

Email attachment ?

Now - if you had a backup regime such as Norton Ghost - thats where they would be safe [maybe]

Thanks Brian ! The brush files are there, but they contain the same brushes as the Default set and no longer carry the original brushes. Hope that makes sense.

My mother-in-law may have PS on her home computer. I may try to have her email me the files. If that doesn't work, I guess I will go with the uninstall ! Just scares me -- I don't want it screwed up more than it is already !:(

[Benny Pedersen]

The ABR brush file in the before ZIP file was taken from PSE5.

Both

PSE3: "Calligraphic Brushes.abr" size=736 byte, date=10/4/2004 1:12 AM

and the

PSE5: "Calligraphic Brushes.abr" size=736 byte, date=9/14/2006 7:57 AM

are 100% the same file (identical binary content), so the before ZIP with the ABR file is okay for both PSE3 and PSE5.

The elements forum here don't allow ZIP files greater than about 100 KB, so I can't upload a ZIP file with the "Faux Finish Brushes.abr", unless I first write a little program that could split a large file into two pieces jigsaw puzzle.
wait...
Okay, I have now written a program, so the large ABR file is now in two
pieces that I have put into each ZIP file. So, just download both two ZIP files. UnZIP both into same location (folder). Then collect the two binary puzzles using the below method - No, forget it, instead I let my program write another program, so just Double Click the "_COLLECT.CMD" file that I put into the last of the two new ZIPs:

Puzzle0.ZIP
Puzzle1.ZIP

Note: The "_COLLECT.CMD" in the Puzzle1.ZIP file runs on WinXP, but could be rewritten for Win9X.

Btw. Also the "Faux Finish Brushes.abr" file is identical in PSE3 and PSE5.
(I have all the PSE versions from 2...5 along with PS7 and... :D )

EXTRA:

To figure out whether two files has the same content, I use this
CompFile.bat

@echo off
:: Created in WinXP. Tested in Win2k/XP.
:: Benny Pedersen, September 4, 2003.
set c=1
if not %2)==) goto got_two
if (%1) == () goto got_null
if exist %temp%.\fc(0).bat goto got_2th
:got_1th
echo set f=%1> %temp%.\fc(0).bat
goto exit!
:got_two
echo.%1
echo.%2
echo.______________________________
if (%OS%)==(Windows_NT) set /p c=? Input: 1=ASCII. 2=BIN. %=%
if (%c%)==(1) fc /lb1 /n %1 %2
if (%c%)==(2) fc /lb1 /b %1 %2
pause
:got_null
if exist %temp%.\fc(0).bat del /p %temp%.\fc(0).bat
goto exit!
:got_2th
call "%temp%.\fc(0).bat"
echo.%f%
echo.%1
echo.______________________________
if (%OS%)==(Windows_NT) set /p c=? Input: 1=ASCII. 2=BIN. %=%
if (%c%)==(1) if not %f% == %1 fc /lb1 /n %f% %1
if (%c%)==(2) if not %f% == %1 fc /lb1 /b %f% %1
if %f% == %1 echo Try again,
set f=%nothing%
del %temp%.\fc(0).bat
pause
:exit!
set c=%nothing%
cls
:EOF


and to split the binary file, I used this very fast written code
to split the ABR file into two pieces:
"Split.VBS", Updated March 21, 2007

option explicit' Split.VBS
select case (wScript.arguments.count)
case 0 msgBox vbLf _
& "You forgot something:" & string(2,vbLf) _
& "Drag and drop a file." & string(2,vbLf) _
& "So Quit:",, "Failure": wScript.quit
case 1 dim fso, source0, sourceNX, tmpPath, _
target0, target1, s0, t0, t1, r, count, title
set fso = createObject("scripting.fileSystemObject")
source0 = fso.getFile(wScript.arguments(0))
sourceNX= fso.getFileName(source0)
tmpPath = fso.getSpecialFolder(2)
target0 = tmpPath & "\_t0"
target1 = tmpPath & "\_t1"
count = 0
title = "Files by Benny Pedersen..."
end select
set s0 = fso.openTextFile(source0, 1)
set t0 = fso.openTextFile(target0, 2, true)
set t1 = fso.openTextFile(target1, 2, true)
on error resume next
do: r = s0.read(24576): if err then on error goto 0: exit do
count= count +1
if count <= 4 then
t0.write r
else t1.write r
end if
loop
s0.close: set s0 = nothing
t0.close: set t0 = nothing
t1.close: set t1 = nothing
WriteCMD: set fso= nothing
msgBox "Created %TMP%: _t0, _t1, _COLLECT.CMD" _
& string(2,vbLf) & "Quit:", 64, title
sub WriteCMD
target0 = tmpPath & "\_COLLECT.CMD"
set t0 = fso.openTextFile(target0, 2, true)
t0.writeLine "@echo off" & vbCrLf _
& "copy /b ""%~dp1_t0"" + ""%~dp1_t1"" = """ _
& "%~dp1_" & sourceNX & """" & vbCrLf _
& "title=" & title & "& echo." & vbCrLf _
& "echo Created ""_" & sourceNX & """" & "& echo.& pause"
t0.close: set t0 = nothing
end sub


Zip.VBS, http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript/browse_thread/thread/6dd74c881728a53f/9a5ff17175542e93#9a5ff17175542e93

Benny

[In_the_gym]

Benny, thank you so much for going to all the trouble. I seem to being going from bad to worse. Once I got the calligraphic brushes file copied into the directory. I had the bevels and inner shadows files go bad. Then I got the Faux finishes fixed and the Square brushes went bad. I think I'm going to have to do a re-install. Thank you again for all your trouble, I really appreciate it.

[Benny Pedersen]

No problem here. It was exciting to make those programs which maybe reused... :D

Since you have all those trouble with your PSE, then a reinstallation is
a good idea.

Remember to come back here and tell us when it's done, etc...

Benny,
PS.
Going to sleep now 00:05 AM (I was up 1:30 AM :eek: so now I'm tired, zzz)

[Wendy]

Hi ...

If you do a reinstall then I am afraid that you will need to reinstall the extra layer styles and actions too :(

Wendy

[In_the_gym]

Thanks Wendy ! That was my guess anyway. RATZ !

[Wendy]

Hi ...

Do hope that the reinstall goes OK .... :)

Wendy