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Photoshop CS4 crashes after Snow Leopard Upgrade

Most people I know have mac's and are heavy photoshop users, you think Apple would make sure that one of the biggest and most popular programs for a mac would work properly! Saving, opening and editing all crash it, its very unstable now. Hello, I make my living as a graphic designer and NEED my photoshop to work! this is completely ridiculous for it not to work on both of my machines.

Apple needs to get back into the mindset of having stable systems and OS not all the fun and fluff!!!

Anyone else having issues with photoshop?

iMac core 2 duo 20", Mac OS X (10.6), 500GB HD 3gb ram

Posted on Sep 1, 2009 11:58 AM

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Sep 4, 2009 10:29 AM in response to Dave Robertson2

Okay, I just tried to create a disc image from folder using "Disk Utility" and as soon as I hit save, it crashed. So, I now have had problems with not only CS4 products, but also Microsoft Entourage, Preview, & now Disk Utility. Apple has a major problem on their hands here with Snow Leopard. I hope they fix it fast. Can you smell lawsuits?

Sep 4, 2009 11:14 AM in response to sjam

My main iMac still had the problem with crashes on opening a file and saving. I decided to completely erase CS4 and I mean everything. I then reinstalled my CS4 suite and knock on wood, I've been using photoshop since 12 noon on files over 100mb opening and closing files and saving etc. If you uninstall make sure you use the adobe uninstall in utilities. that's what I did. Good luck everyone.

Sep 4, 2009 6:23 PM in response to sjam

The thread is long so not sure if this was offered as a solution. Found this on another website and it has worked for others.

Go into Photoshops Preferences then Performance and un-click "Enable OpenGL Drawing". So far it has worked for me. No more crashes, though I've only tried a couple of things, e.g. saving a psd as a jpeg and applying the filter to remove dust & scratches from another photo.

Sep 7, 2009 9:08 AM in response to sjam

After some day of Photoshop cs4 on Snow Leopard crashing, i notice one thing today... just to let other know, a friend of mine updated the same day and he doesn't have any problems of crashing on open/save this is because he didn't update photoshop cs4 11.0.0 to 11.0.1 (and this is the same for the other CS4 apps) so i think a *clean and install WITHOUT UPGRADING CS4 PRODUCTS* to 11.0.1 will solve this, i'll try this tonight or tomorrow and let you all know. this is a very messy problem and adobe claim "CS4 is ready for snow leopard", they should say the truth

Photoshop CS4 crashes after Snow Leopard Upgrade

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