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Photoshop CS4 constantly freezes and then won't quit!
Here are my specs:
Software:
- Photoshop CS4 version 11.0.1
- OS X Leopard 10.5.7
Hardware:
-Mac Pro
-2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors
-5 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM Memory
Photoshop constantly freezes on me, especially when I'm using the "Save for Web" tool. This wouldn't be so bad except that when Photoshop freezes, I can't force quit it or even kill it using the command line, plus it severely slows down all my other apps and I keep getting the spinning beach ball. The only way for me to use PS again is rebooting my computer... extremely annoying.
I've tried force-quit from the dock and also from the alt-command-esc menu. When those didn't work I ran
So I tried
next I tried
I ran an integrity check on my hard drive using Disk Utility and no problems turned up.
I'm really at my whit's end here - please help me!
Software:
- Photoshop CS4 version 11.0.1
- OS X Leopard 10.5.7
Hardware:
-Mac Pro
-2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors
-5 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM Memory
Photoshop constantly freezes on me, especially when I'm using the "Save for Web" tool. This wouldn't be so bad except that when Photoshop freezes, I can't force quit it or even kill it using the command line, plus it severely slows down all my other apps and I keep getting the spinning beach ball. The only way for me to use PS again is rebooting my computer... extremely annoying.
I've tried force-quit from the dock and also from the alt-command-esc menu. When those didn't work I ran
ps -afx | grep Adobe and then I see:
501 1613 121 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.00 (Adobe Photoshop )
501 1614 1613 0 0:00.00 ?? 0:00.00 (AdobeCrashDaemon)
501 1935 1714 0 0:00.00 ttys000 0:00.00 grep Adobe
So I tried
sudo kill 1613,
next I tried
sudo kill 1614,
sudo kill -KILL 1613 and sudo kill -KILL 1614 don't work either.
I ran an integrity check on my hard drive using Disk Utility and no problems turned up.
I'm really at my whit's end here - please help me!
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Inappropriate?I have this exact same problem. I was almost late to an important client presentation due to the fact that I had to wait nearly ten minutes for the beach ball to go away. I wasn't even using Save For Web this time, but often when I do it just sits there for 5 minutes before actually saving the file.
I love CS4 and the good folks at Adobe who have put so much hard work into it, but "little" problems like this can be absolutely infuriating when trying to beat a deadline. -
Inappropriate?Yeah, this was *very* frustrating for me as well. Rebooting OSX every hour in order to edit PSDs was not very fun.
The good news is, I figured out how to make PS CS4 stop crashing/freezing! It seems that this annoyance was due to a few bad plug-ins.
To fix, I made a backup of /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Plug-ins and then removed all plug-ins except for those in the directories "Extensions", "File Formats", and "Import-Export". I figure if I need any of the other plug-ins, I can always just add them back in the future (and hope they aren't the offending ones)
Hope this helps!
I’m confident
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Inappropriate?I had a similar problem but Avram's recommended solution didn't work for me. Instead, I tried resetting the Adobe Photoshop Settings File by holding down Command+Option+Shift keys as I launched CS4. This seemed to clear up my problems! -
