I am getting this message when I try to save my document in Photoshop CS2. It has happened twice today – a file I’ve been working on and saving all of a sudden won’t save b/c of this "program error".
I tried saving in different formats (TIFF, JPG, PSD), renaming the file and saving to different locations.
The first time it happened I quit Photoshop without saving, rebooted my computer (PowerBook G4) and opened the file back up and WAS able to save. Now it’s happening again and I don’t want to close the program and lose all the work I’ve done on the file.
Does anyone know what’s causing this error? Thanks
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Had this problem but saved OK when I saved file (Save as) to an external firewire HD instead of my main HD. Quit and restarted Photoshop, copied file back to main HD. All OK again.
just had the same issue, using an intel imac. saving to my external hdd solved the problem. Now to avoid it in future do i need to look at getting more ram (as ps is running through rosetta) … currently on 1 gig, or are there some settings i need to change?! thanks
Happens all the time on my G5 tower. 2 Gigs of RAM and 63 Gigs of drive space available. I have to save to an alternate drive or server volume. Only happens when I try and save to the local main drive.
Happens to me often also. CS2 and CS3. Plenty of ram and HD space. Like Michael, saving to a different volume allows me to save. Pain in the butt though.
When you work on an image that is kept on a external FW drive and the drive goes to sleep, then you try to save the image you are working on, it fails to wake the drive and you see PS go through the process of saving only to end with the program error dialog. If you hit the HD first by opening a finder window and selecting something on the drive the image is on also so that a preview is drawn, waking that drive, you can now save the image without getting the program error.
This did not happen in X.4.7 and I am now running .8 This looks to be a OS issue. This happens in cs2 & cs3 beta. Yell at apple!
Yes my start up is on a seperate drive not being used for ps scratch!
I suggest that you might have more luck if you copied the CLOSED file from your FWD to your HD before working on it; and then copied the completed, Saved and closed file back again.
I would also set the Computer to "Never Sleep"; and make sure that both your computer and your FWD are run through an "Uninterruptible Power Supply".
