CS2 problem - has this ever happened to anyone else?

This morning I was working on a really difficult image - did about 1 1/2 hours of very tedious and careful masking, then went on the finish the image. Was I smart enough to save it after the masking? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Did my normal rountine upon completion - I converted to 8 bits, converted profile, and went to Print with Preview and did the Page Set-up and clicked on Printing Preferences. When I clicked on Printing Preferences the screen just went blank. CS2 had closed up and shut down!!!! Bridge was still open, and computer was still functioning properly. CS2 was the only program affected.

Has this happened to anyone else - any ideas on what happened or how to prevent it in the future (besides the obvious save after each operation from now on)

Thanks.

That sounds like a printer driver problem. One thing you may want to try is upgrading to the latest driver available for your printer.

It really all comes down to workflow - train yourself to always save before attempting to print

Guy

I've been having random crashes from Photoshop CS2 a lot lately. They come and go. Yesterday it was random power failures knocking everything out for about 2 seconds. I doubt the 2 are related. But it is just par for the course when you are working. I have files that take up to 20 minutes to save on a fast Mac, and I have to struggle with "wasting" minutes saving, or potential wasting hours to rebuild. I love InDesign's recovery abilities, I wonder when Adobe will do that with their other software. For those who don't know, when you open a crashed InDesign file, it must read the old temporary files, or does mini saves, and it can recover the file from usually minutes before the crash.

I've often wondered why CS2 doesn't have some type of timed auto save like word processors do; something that would save the unflattened file so you could still access history - perhaps it's just too complicated or cumbersome. In the meantime, I will just have to be more disciplined and conscientious about savings after each operation I perform.

Bill,

I have similar happen once or twice and I attribute mostly to not having enough horsepower with my computer. I only have 1 Gig of ram and it really bogs down sometimes on complicated edits.

Take care and good luck,

Mike

Bill, I have also had this happen to me a few times with CS2. It never happened with CS with 512 mb if RAM, but it has happened with CS2 even after I upgraded to 1 gig of RAM.

Mike & Mark - did you do anything to your machines to remedy the situation? I've got 2 GB of Ram, but I also usually have several programs running at the same time. I know there's a way to pull a little monitor to tell you how much capacity is being used currently but I forgot the keystrokes. Typical.

Bill, I also sometime have several programs running. I've learned that sometimes this is too much for CS2. Even just having Itunes playing is too much sometimes.