CS3 crashes EVERY TIME at QUIT

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Patrick_Toomey
Sep 28, 2008
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Howdy all, this post is similar but not identical to others. EVERY TIME that I use CS3 10.0.1 the application crashes when I use the menu to "QUIT PHOTOSHOP." This occurs even if I have opened the application and NEVER opened a photo at all! My MAC OS is 10.5.5. I am running on an Intel iMac of 20 inches. I have 3 GB of RAM and have a 235 GB hard drive of which 132 GB is free. On the iMac I have Parallels installed but this happens even if I am not running Parallels; ie. even if I have not been using XP at all. In fact it happens even if Photoshop is the ONLY application running. I have an Epson 2400 printer, a Linksys router, and a Brother 2040 laser on the system. I also have an HP 2175 scanner, but the crash occurs even if I have this turned off and disconnected from the system. The error message that I get is " The application Photoshop quite unexpectedly. " I use the Apple automatic check for updates function and that is how I got to this version of Mac OS.
Does anyone have any suggestions? This happens every time. When using Photoshop I do not get any crashes, and it seems to work trouble free. ONLY when I go to close do I get these error messages.

Patrick Toomey
Charlottesville, VA
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Ram
Sep 28, 2008
This is usually (though not always) caused by a corrupted saved workspace file.
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Patrick_Toomey
Sep 28, 2008
Ramon,
Thanks for the reply. Let me explain one other detail. First, th crash ONLY occurs when I QUIT Photoshop. When I enter and quite Bridge it does not occur. The reason that I mention this is that I do use a saved WORKSPACE in Bridge but I do not have one within PHOTOSHOP. Could the workspace within BRIDGE corrupt the Photoshop applicaiton as well?

Patrick Toomey
Charlottesville, Virginia USA
R
Ram
Sep 28, 2008
Who knows!
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Patrick_Toomey
Sep 28, 2008
Ramon,
I have gone into Bridge and attempted to delete that custom workspace, but even after several tries the workspace that I created will not delete. Is there a file that I can go to outside of Bridge/Photoshop that I can delete manually within finder?

Patrick
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Ram
Sep 28, 2008
Patrick,

Yes, deleting saved workspace files is the only effective way of getting rid of them, especially if they are corrupted.

Do a search on the name of the workspace.

Apple’s Spotblight is a piece of crap that misses a bunch of files, so I use the free EasyFind instead.

I’m not at my Mac right now, so I can’t look up the exact location of workspace files for you.
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Patrick_Toomey
Sep 29, 2008
Solved!! I have no idea what was wrong, and no idea what I did to correct the problem, but it works now. First I re-installed Mac OS. Leopard and checked for ALL of the available updates. At that point I attempted to boot Photoshop, but I got a message that I needed to re-install CS3. After re-installing this, tedious I might add, and attempting to start the application, edit some photos, etc, then QUIT the application all was fine again. I might add, that I was NEVER able to delete the custom workspace that I created within Bridge. I could not find a file with that name and using the menu option to delete the workspace was not effective. At this point the application works fine, as does the custom workspace within Bridge . I must therefore conclude that the workspace was never the culprit in this strange order of events.

Patrick Toomey
Charlottesville, VIrginia

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