8~<> Need a shoulder to cry on.....spent the last 3 hours working on a photo montage and when I tried to save it PS crashed..... sniff....damn it!! I still have a base image to work with but all the addition and fine tuning I had done is GONE...... throws self on floor stomps, kicks and screams ..... Now back to your regularly schedule programming......

Jesus saves. The rest of us have to Back up. Bummer. If you have seen the Bryce Render on my site I did called Wine Forgotten (the one with the sunset, rose and wine glasses), I worked on that for 5 hours then crashed. I hadn't saved for 4.5 or those hours. Lost almost everything. Started over and finished at 4 in the morning. it was a gift for my wife for our 2nd aniversary. I understand (patting Michelle on the back) {{{{{hug}}}}

Oh no MIchelle :( I think we've all had something like that happen, and it's never any fun. hands Michelle the tissues and a some chocolate :)

i light a candle in my church of the lost digital works. although its really bright in there already...

Ouch! That is so not fun!! :( I bet you just want to throw that computer out the window!

Ohhhhh... And it will never look the same... 8-( Hugz, Dear Michelle. [Photoshop 7 does seem a lot less stable than 5.5]

We've all been there before, but like many of us, i'm sure you will make something twice as good as the one you lost.

Bug hug...

sniff, sniff Thanks for the tissue and chocolate and all the huggles..... Yes Misha for some reason PS 7 seems to crash for no reason that I've been able to figure out... It always happens after I've been working on an image for a while, I click "save as" and boom.....the program just shuts right down. sigh It's a pretty irritating habit....

Oh now, now that I've read this, my PS is going to start crashing, I just know it >.< Luckily, I haven't had that problem with PS7 (never used 5.5). knocks wood

PS7 has know conflicts with some extensions on MAC. check the adobe site

Oooooooh! Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrlease! Enough!!! Quote: . throws self on floor stomps, kicks and screams ..... Now...what Mercy did Wee Son get.....when He threw a Tacit Tantrum? Huh? ....Yes....how soon We forget....Huh??? Then, in His Pain....You Moody Woman....You took His Photograph....and rubbed His Virtual Nose in it! Now, the Shoe is on the other Foot....the Sheep is in the Other Paddock! Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuah!!! I bet Your Wee Boy could have sorted it out....if only You were nice...now get off the Floor, stop kicking and screaming....You Moody Moderator...and get on with some Cookie Baking! Hugz....Me! ....I used to be a Wee Boy once :)

hi, hope you were able to recover your work. a guy i worked with had the same problem as well. he managed to get around the problem temporarly by increasing his scratch disk but ultimately he solved his problem by getting more ram for his machine.

i had a similar problem & this is what a dear gf told me, even though i doubled my memory: "...your problem is most likely due to too many programs running in your Start Up menu. For example, hit your cntl + alt+ delete buttons all at the same time. A window should open up showing you a list of what will look like gobbledygook, LOL, but it's all the things running behind the scenes. These will slow down your system and eat up valuable resources - and you'll notice it most when you are working with graphics. What to do? Find someone who knows about computers, have them come over and look through the list. Then they will know which can be turned off and which can't. It'll be a pain in the arse, but have them show you exactly which ones to shut off and when you plan to do extensive graphics, you'll have to go in and do that. A pain because when you reboot your computer, the list will return and you'll have to go in and do this each time you're going to do your graphics. Pain yes, but at least you'll be able use your programs and filters without the constant crashes! Hope this helps!" hugz 'chelle :]

Cynlee, If you are running Win98 you can go to Start Run and type in msconfig and hit enter. There you can turn the unneeded BS off!

i'm not, i got xp, so now what? (p.s. ...the list of goop is under processes)

got me there. Too much spyware for me. I won't run it but I am sure there is some similar type tool in there somewhere.

cynlee, if you're at least a bit familiar with Registry, you can delete entries in there. Otherwise, you have to double-click/right-click on the entries in the System Tray and exit those program before you start working. In the list of processes, there are some that are easily identifiable. But others are not. If you can identify something, kill the process. If you kill a wrong process, the worst that can happen is that you'll have to reboot. Also, download a little program called Ad-aware from www.lavasoft.us It will find and remove possible spyware. I hate programs that settle down in the System Tray whether I asked them to or not. Possible culprits: Real player, Quick Time, various messengers, Seti@Home, browser quick-launch programs, and so on, and so on. Michelle, it's quite possible that PS7 gradually eats more and more memory and then trips itself. Or that it's a bug, if it always happens when you click on "Save As". Bryce sometimes has a habit of shutting itself without a word if you Undoed a lot of times in a row. Have you installed the 7.01 upgrade?

thanks Erlik, i do have Adaware & Windows Washer, i try to keep my system running smooth but i dare not touch the registry yet, i got a friend translating my .exe processes now so i'll know what's there :]