Ruler Tool Units

Hello -
I have been using CS6 for about a year. I have my rulers set to show inches, but when I use the ruler tool, it has always shown my measurements in pixels (which I actually prefer). This afternoon, however, for some unknown reason, the ruler tool suddenly started showing my measurements in inches, and I can't seem to get it to change back to its previous behavior. What that previous behavior normal, or was it some weird glitch (that actually worked really well for me!)? If not, how do I get it to change back without changing my preferences for the on-screen rulers?
Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
Michael Lark
Win7 64 Bit
Photoshop CS6 64 Bit

Yes, I am aware that I can change the ruler units. But that changes both the ruler tool and the ruler on the screen. Up until this afternoon, the ruler onscreen was displaying inches, while the ruler tool was displaying pixels. I would prefer it to be that way, though I'm starting to think that it was just a glitch that somehow corrected itself. Much to my chagrin.

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http://helpx.adobe.com/en/photoshop/using/positioning-ruler-tool.html
This document says the ruler tool always uses pixels unless you change measurement scale on a per image basis:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop//10.0/help.html?content=WS3D3EF585-502B-49d2-85F F-537E9DC25C21.html
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no such subdirectory: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Presets\SCRIPTS
Message was edited by: eliz926
ANSWER: out of the box installation on an XP Dell laptop resulted in NO installation errors but a missing subdirectory - or the in-application updates removed subdirectories.
re-installing the complete application installed the missing subdirectories.
hopefully those with the same error now have something to check on with their application directory structure. there is at least one other who has this error on a Mac.
thanks to all who responded.
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Message was edited by: eliz926

I have adobe photoshop CS6 and I am trying to use the analysis tools but all of them except for the ruler tool are unavailable. Am I missing certain plug ins?

I have adobe photoshop CS6 and I am trying to use the analysis tools but all of them except for the ruler tool are unavailable. Am I missing certain plug ins?

Which operating system?
If I recall, some features were not fully supported on XP.
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First try re-setting the Ruler Tool from the tool's fly-out menu.
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If you had at least indicated your platform, I could be more specific, but here it goes anyway:
To re-create the preferences files for Photoshop, start the application while holding down Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS). Then, click Yes to the message, "Delete the Adobe Photoshop Settings file?"
For next time you post:
Please read this FAQ for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419981?tstart=0
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This is noted in both the Mac and Windows versions of CC 2014.1.0 (which would leave out the OS and hardware glitches.)
Tried a flat grayscale file, added an adjustment layer, and noticed the same problem in CC 2014. (that eliminates a buggy file)
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raylaur wrote:
I then used the Marquee tool to snap to the guides and it read 720 pixels.
Where? In the Info panel? If so, did you read the W (width), and not the X (horizontal pixel position)?
I just did what you said and got consistent measurements.
-Noel

CS5's Ruler Tool and Straighten

In CS5 is it possible to turn off the auto crop function when you click the "Straighten" button when you are using the ruler tool?
Short of going to Image > Image Rotation > Arbitrary... I see no settings for it, or other way to avoid it cropping.
Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.

What I'm doing requires me to keep the image's dimensions at a rather specific aspect ratio so more often than not I use the space from the rationing to keep that, and fill it in with either black or white.
But, what I did discover is that the rotating and cropping are done as two separate actions. Meaning I can just Ctrl+z to undo the last action and I'll have that space back.
I'll have to look into writing a script similar to the one you suggested because that could take a few seconds off each time I do this, and I tend to do it in bulk.
Thanks again for advice.

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