Corel Creative Collection... Where??

[michel392]

Hello!

Some weeks ago I bought and installed all files in the PSP 2023 Ultimate package, including PSP2023_Corel_CreativeCollection.exe ("Includes dozens of brushes, textures and royalty-free backgrounds").

But I cannot find any of the backgrounds, just PAID ones.

Where to find the elements of the collection?

Thank you,
Antonio Michel

[LeviFiction]

Backgrounds are found in C:\Users\Public\Public Pictures\

[JoeB]

Am I missing something or does PSP scatter various collection resources around in different places? IMHO resources should be in properly named folders with all such folders in one intuitive location.

[LeviFiction]

Mostly they are, the whole point of the installer is so they can go into ProgramData folder for all of the resources. And then the main program would just pick them up so you don't have to know where on the harddrive they are. All except the backgrounds for some reason.

But the big issue I have with this is the installer. They have to update it with every new version of PSP. It can never just go into a single shared set of folders. It always needs to install into the most recent ones. And if they forget to do this, or they just haven't gotten to it yet, the installer won't actually work. This is the most common error I see, the installer does nothing because it hasn't been updated to work with the latest version of PSP and so it just does nothing or installs under an older copy you have on your harddrive.

[nickmoon]

Recently acquired the big PSP 2023 Ultimate bundle with videostudio and all the free stuff. Thanks for answering a question I was about to ask. Loads of stuff supplied but all hidden in random places. Somewhat poor. I feel like it is 1998 all over again. LOL!

[PromZA]

The issue here is mainly Windows that likes to place things in different hidden locations. Really the best programming practice is to make everything self contained and I still see some programs do this so you'll have all resources, including DLLs, in a single location that you can easily check when you want to move to a different system or reinstall it. I use a different partition so I can just format my Windows one and in case I forget about something the important stuff is still there.

I get what Corel is doing as you can easily access it by going to your pictures folder but ideally there should be a menu link for every resource that takes you to the correct folder and maybe this is something to include in a future release. The Windows shared method is one left over from the days of MBs of ram and disk space and not TBs like today. Besides a DLL can check if it is already loaded so there's no wasted memory. What MS did was to try and harmonise the two methodologies while not getting rid of the former but it's only confused developers and it's really something we should get rid of, plus Windows has been known to clear data folders randomly so I don't use the built-in locations for anything.