Disk Error Run Into This Every Day

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thoseradiodays
Dec 13, 2005
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I switch back and forth between Photoshop Elements and Painter (Corel) when working on a document. I make sure to save and close the window when moving a document from Painter to Elements. —-

Once or twice a day when I go to save the document, Elements gives me the message, "File could not be saved because of a disk error." I am using a Mac with the latest version of Tiger. —-

How can I avoid this message?

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Jim
Dec 13, 2005
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I switch back and forth between Photoshop Elements and Painter (Corel) when working on a document. I make sure to save and close the window when moving a document from Painter to Elements. —-

Once or twice a day when I go to save the document, Elements gives me the message, "File could not be saved because of a disk error." I am using a Mac with the latest version of Tiger. —-

How can I avoid this message?

Earl Williams, Surrey, British Columbia
Replace the disk perhaps? The products you mentioned don’t cause disk errors.
Jim
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akiersky
Dec 14, 2005
A lot of people choose to use either Painter or Photoshop, because they both are relitively similar. Using elements is probibally your biggest problem, as it is a fairly simple program and painter is more detailed. If this is the system you must use though, it might be good to plan your projects out a bit further in advance and do all your painter work first then pull the final product into photoshop. switching back and fourth somtimes causes errors.
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thoseradiodays
Dec 14, 2005
Thanks for taking the time to respond akier. I can’t stop switching back and forth. I take certain actions in Painter with the idea of making a modification in Elements and vice versa. Making selections in Elements is so much easier that out of frustration I switch to it.

I also like the live rotation and scaling in Elements. Perhaps I’m not as good at planning as you are.
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Tacit
Dec 14, 2005
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If this is the system you must use though, it might be good to plan your projects out a bit further in advance and do all your painter work first then pull the final product into photoshop. switching back and fourth somtimes causes errors.

Not in my experience–which extends back a long way.

Switching an image between different graphics programs should **never** cause disk errors. If it does, something is wrong. The disk directory is corrupt, the hard disk is malfunctioning and should be replaced, the motherboard or disk controller is malfunctioning, there’s defective RAM in the computer–SOMETHING is wrong.


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Mike Russell
Dec 14, 2005
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I switch back and forth between Photoshop Elements and Painter (Corel) when working on a document. I make sure to save and close the window when moving a document from Painter to Elements. —-

Once or twice a day when I go to save the document, Elements gives me the message, "File could not be saved because of a disk error." I am using a Mac with the latest version of Tiger. —-

How can I avoid this message?

It’s possible you are saving too soon, before Painter has finished quitting. Try saving to a different file name.

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
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marks542004
Dec 14, 2005
try saving the file with a different name.

I am not familiar with Macs but it seems strange that you get a disk error only from one application. If the disk was going bad I would expect more errors. Do you have a utility to check the disk or a system log that would record those errors ?

Is there anything in the Elements documentation about maximum file sizes and are your files getting too large ?
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Ron
Dec 24, 2005
Hi I do not know what I am doing here but if anyone can help it would be beaut I had photo shop 7 and I lost the the cd some how but I made a copy from 98 only trouble is along with the disk I lost the serial number and now it would let be use the disk I made without it. Can you help? wrote in message
Thanks for taking the time to respond akier. I can’t stop switching back and forth. I take certain actions in Painter with the idea of making a modification in Elements and vice versa. Making selections in Elements is so much easier that out of frustration I switch to it.
I also like the live rotation and scaling in Elements. Perhaps I’m not as good at planning as you are.
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Mike Russell
Dec 24, 2005
"Ron" wrote in message
Hi I do not know what I am doing here but if anyone can help it would be beaut I had photo shop 7 and I lost the the cd some how but I made a copy from 98 only trouble is along with the disk I lost the serial number and now it would let be use the disk I made without it. Can you help?

Ron,

If you registered with Adobe, contact them and get your serial number. If you didn’t, your product is, unfortunately, simply lost.

Be prepared for some ribbing – this is a fairly common question here and people often assume you are attempting to pirate the software. I think this is usually not the case.


Mike Russell
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