Photoshop 5.5 question

[autumn_whispers2me]

I've reinstalled PS because the program was crashing every time I used the edit-transform-rotate option. I'm not sure why this is happening because yesterday it worked fine, but it's annoying to to put it mildly.

Anyway, the reinstalls didn't help at all, so I decided to ask you guys if you had any idea what this could be or how I can fix whatever's going on. Naturally, I don't get support from Adobe because I have an ancient version---that was bought via ebay. It's worked fine for the last couple of years, and I've only had to reinstall a couple of times.

Any idea how to fix this problem????

[D3mon]

how much space you got left on your HDD? tried a defrag?

[autumn_whispers2me]

I do defrag and scandisk faithfully once a week. I think I 'might' have the problem fixed, and I think it was a corrupted .psd file. I recreated the image from scratch and it's been working just fine (knock on wood!).

Thanks, D3mon!

[Webforumz Staff]

Yes, sometimes these things do unfortunately happen, but thankfully they happen rarely.

[autumn_whispers2me]

Exactly! Thanks.

[pkenn]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:<hr height="1" noshade="noshade" id="quote" />Originally posted by autumn_whispers2me
I've reinstalled PS because the program was crashing every time I used the edit-transform-rotate option. I'm not sure why this is happening because yesterday it worked fine, but it's annoying to to put it mildly.

Anyway, the reinstalls didn't help at all, so I decided to ask you guys if you had any idea what this could be or how I can fix whatever's going on????<hr height="1" noshade="noshade" id="quote" /></blockquote id="quote">

Whenever PS get "wonkey" the best thing to do is to toss your "pref" file and have PS rebuild it on next launch. The preference file (Prefs.psp) is located in the <span style="color:red">Documents and Settings/[user profile]/Application Data/Adobe/Photoshop/[version]/Adobe Photoshop [version] Settings </span id="red"> folder...

if you want, you can force a new preference file to be created by holding down the Shift-Ctrl-Alt as you launch Photoshop.

hope this helps,
p

[autumn_whispers2me]

Thanks! I'll try that next time---sounds easier than a reinstall.