Disabling Adobe Photo Downloader might be an option, although I've not
tried that. If it is a solution, then one would have remember to do that
each time after boot before trying to access data files on a flash
drive. Unfortunately, this bug/feature and it's possible solutions are
not easily visible to the average user, especially when they all they
know is that their data files have suddenly disappeared after updating
Adobe Reader. This wouldn't have become an issue in the first place had
only the Adobe Reader update been checked and downloaded in the first
place, without having to deal with Adobe's pre-checked add-ons.
Richard P.
A quick Google reveals this to be one very unpopular component to an
otherwise much appreciated program.
I guess you are supposed to right-click on the Adobe Photo Downloader
icon in the Taskbar and select either "disable" or "exit" from its menu.
Doesn't that work?
To clarify, we are talking about Adobe's Photoshop Album Starter Edition
3.2. I never said the data was erased, only that it doesn't allow it to
be seen. Adobe installs its application "apdproxy" in startup for its
Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2. This startup application, while
enabling easy access to the Photoshop 3.2, also only allows an inserted
flash drive's photo content to be seen. When inserting a flash drive,
Photoshop 3.2 takes over, opens it, and displays any images contained in
the flashdrive, including any graphics contained in a document but not
the document itself. On one network system, the flashdrive would not
even show up in Windows Explorer as long as Photoshop 3.2 had control of
it. The only way to see the drive and flashdrive's original data, is to
disable Photoshop's "apdproxy" in startup, reboot and start over.
Without "apdproxy" running, the drive as well as the data can be seen
and accessed normally.
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