Freezes on open/new file in Photoshop CS3

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Piotr_Naskrecki
Apr 22, 2007
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Photoshop CS3 displays a strange behavior of freezing for 30-45 seconds every time I try to open or create a new file, regardless of its size or format. Once the file is open Photoshop returns to its usual behavior, and I experience no slow downs. Has anybody experienced this problem,or knows what may be causing it?

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Erik_Lauritsen
Apr 24, 2007
NO WAY!

have the EXACT same problem in CS2 and it used to work just fine on the same machine. I have tried re-installing and it still does it!

that is too weird!
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Bob Levine
Apr 24, 2007
For CS2 are you patched to 9.0.2?

Bob
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Erik_Lauritsen
Apr 24, 2007
yes, 9.0.2 exactly, seems like i got the problem when i did the upgrade.

thank you for your response though.

have yet to find any good info on this strange matter.

I have put the scratch disk on D and allocated more ram to CS2 and still have these problems. I hope someone can help me, i love photoshop and hate to have to wait for it to load
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Erik_Lauritsen
Apr 25, 2007
Ok… I am really confused now.

After having done nothing more than changing my icon for photoshop, it now does not freeze up when creating a new document… go figure. I realize that the two events are completely unrelated, but I wanted to express the speraticness of this problem.

one thing I did differently, I opened an existing JPG instead of creating a new document and from that point on, it does not freeze up. what do you think?
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Andrew_L_Robinson
May 1, 2007
I was having this same problem with Photoshop CS3 running on XP Pro, as soon as I deleted a network printer I never use (connects over a VPN) I can create/open files instantly.

Thanks to LenHewitt, post #6
<http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc39208?14#post>
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JFlarouche.com
May 8, 2007
I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM HERE WITH CS3 !!!!
It used to work just fine and since I installed the network printer it took me more than 10 seconds to open a new document in photoshop.

I JUST CHANGED THE DEFAULT PRINTER AND IT WORKS PERFECTLY !

JF

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JFlarouche.com
May 8, 2007
Make sure your default printer is not a networked printer

it solved my problem. THANKS !!!

JF
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Michael_Baird
May 17, 2007
Wow, that was my same problem – CS3 was slow (30 seconds) just to open a JPG – after making another printer the default it now only takes a few seconds to open. The printers that caused the problem were any of my printers on Linksys print servers on my LAN… I’m running XP Pro
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Brandon_Siemssen
May 18, 2007
CS3 running on XP home would not open ANY files without crashing and wanting to send a error report. It would not even create a brand new file without exhibiting the same behavior. I do not have any network printers, but I did remember my default printer is a vinyl plotter that is not hooked up to the computer all the time. (and wasn’t when I started having the problem) I changed my default printer to adobe PDF and the problem was solved. Thanks for leading me in the right direction. This was getting very frustrating.

I put up my experience just in case others are having trouble opening or creating ANY files. It is likely the same issue as those who have trouble opening only certain file types.
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John_J_Bongiovanni
Mar 14, 2008
I was experiencing random annoying freezes in Photoshop CS3 recently (hadn’t happened before). I discovered that they only happened when I was working on files residing on another computer on our home network. Obviously a lower-level networking problem.

When I copied the files to my own computer to work on, the problems went away.
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Sachin_Wartak
Oct 7, 2008
Thanks all of u,

I worked on this for 2 days, did not figure out the problem. then I read the forum, turn down network printer and the problem is solved. I am using pdf complete as default printer.
Adobe should highlight such issues in Performance OR support documents.

thanks once again.
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Sachin_Wartak
Oct 7, 2008
Thanks all of u,

I worked on this for 2 days, did not figure out the problem. then I read the forum, turn down network printer and the problem is solved. I am using pdf complete as default printer.
Adobe should highlight such issues in Performance OR support documents.

thanks once again.
JJ
John Joslin
Oct 7, 2008
Adobe should highlight such issues in Performance OR support documents.

That would be nice.

(Save me a lot of typing.)

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