Photoshop CS2 quit delay

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Rodney_Rhodes
Jan 24, 2007
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Running Photoshop CS2 (9.0.2) on a Dual 2.5 GHz G5 PowerMac / 4 Gb RAM / OS X 10.4.8 . . .

Sometimes, when I quit the program at the end of the day, it seems to lock up the entire computer. After about 2 minutes or so, I get control back and can continue the shutdown process.

This seems to happen regardless of whether I use the Quit menu command in the program, use the Dock popout Quit menu, or simply issue the Shutdown command from the Finder while the program is running.

It’s not consistent, though. Some days it happens, some days it doesn’t.

The same problem also occurs intermittently with Illustrator (12.0.1).

Anyone have any ideas how to stop this annoyance?

Thanks,

Rodney
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Buko
Jan 24, 2007
Don’t shut down Photoshop.
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christoph_pfaffenbichler
Jan 25, 2007
Does this problem happen even if no psd-documents are open? Because I could imagine that, if You have a couple files open and You work heavily on the scratch-discs, Photoshop might have to clean up the history and such on the hard-drives.
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Rodney_Rhodes
Jan 25, 2007
I usually don’t have any files open when I quit the program. Someone in the Illustrator forum told me that all Adobe apps take a lot of time to update the prefs file upon shutdown. It seems like a very long time to write a prefs file. And it doesn’t happen every time.

It’s a small annoyance, though. It just adds a few minutes when I’m trying to get out of the door at the end of the day!

Rodney
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Buko
Jan 26, 2007
Do you leave the computer running 24/7?

I was not kidding when I said just let it run.
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Ram
Jan 27, 2007
I still advocate Repairing Permissions before AND after any system update or upgrade, as well as before AND after installing any software that requires an installer that asks for your password.

I have seen software installations go sour because the installer did not find everything as and where it should be.

I have also seen software installations go bad because the installer did not clean up after itself properly and did not leave everything as and where it should be.

This is just my own personal opinion and practice based on my own observations. Others may disagree and that’s OK. I can only base my routines and my advice to others on my own experience and conclusion. I don’t pretend to know why others believe otherwise.

Repairing Permissions after the fact (i. e. not immediately before and after an install) may NOT help.

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Additionally, if your machine does not run 24/7 so that it runs the daily, weekly and monthly Cron Scripts in the middle of the night as intended by Apple, run Cocktail (shareware) as well.

Cron Scripts are maintenance routines designed by Apple to run on a daily, weekly and monthly basis in the middle of the night.

If you don’t run them, you WILL run into trouble, sooner rather than later.

Here’s an excerpt from the Apple tech doc <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107388>

Mac OS X performs background maintenance tasks at certain times if the computer is not in sleep mode. If your computer is shut down or in sleep at the designated times, the maintenance does not occur. In that case, you may want or need to run these manually.
Mac OS X periodically runs background tasks that, in part, remove system files that are no longer needed. This includes purging older information from log files or deleting certain temporary items. These tasks do not run if the computer is shut down or in sleep mode. If the tasks do not run, it is possible that certain log files (such as system.log) may become very large.
Also, from: <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106978>

The disk activity generated by find is a normal part of file system maintenance, used for tasks such as removing invisible temporary files that are used by the system. It is scheduled to occur early in the morning at 03:15 everyday, 04:30 on Saturdays, and 05:30 on the first day of each month.

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