P: CS6 beta crashing on my system (Win, more than 4 scratch disks)

Hey reflex7, please post outcome of your experiments.

Huh. Well we seem to be running basically the exact same configuration, plugins and all, as I had set six drives as scratch disks. Time to experiment...

JUMPED THE GUN!! But.......

After I changed scratch disk from only one, default disk "C", and chose 5 other, non-OS, internal drives (several TB total free space), the same crashes as mentioned in my previous posts started happening again. The 5 scratch disks, excluding "C" disk (C is my OS drive), configuration was my setup under CS5 Extended 64-bit and worked fine.

As a test, went through and chose one, non-C, disk at a time as a scratch disk, to determine if a specific disk was causing problem,. After each mod, I exited and re-opened Photoshop for the change to take effect and performed same actions that were causing crashes. No crashes regardless of chosen disk. So ruled out a specific disk being the culprit.

Then started increasing number of scratch disks one at a time. Discovered that 4 scratch disks, regardless of the disks chosen, appear to be the max number of scratch disks I can choose under CS6 Extended. Choose 5 disks (doesn't matter what 5, including the C drive) and the crashes reoccur.

Note that the 5 scratch disks configuration causes the same crashes in CS6 Extended 32-bit. Any number of scratch disks less than 5 is no problem....your mileage may vary.

reflex7...you're quite welcome.

Well, since posting the initial question and listening to Chris' advice, I purchased a copy of Windows 7 to upgrade my OS. I'll be installing that this week, uninstalling the beta, and buying the retail release. I, too, use NIK plugins so it will be interesting to see if my issues are rectified as well.

Thanks for the added support, RMM. I'll hopefully be able to call this case closed by the end of the week.

RE: fresh install versus change to retail cure.......who knows--maybe Adobe? Depends on amount of mods, if any, made to final/retail version between time I downloaded and began using beta on 22 March 2012 and when I purchased retail on 7 May 2012.

As with most new or revised software releases, I'm sure there will be other kinks to follow (not talking perverted acts--although I suppose crashes could be considered abnormal behavior outside the acceptable norm).

Glad it's sorted. The cure didn't just lie in the fresh install rather than the change to retail I suppose?

Update!!!

On 7 May 2012, purchased and downloaded CS6 Extended upgrade for Windows from adobe.com.

Before installing, uninstalled CS6 beta and rebooted.

Installed CS6 Extended upgrade (x86 and 64-bit).

Brought up CS6 Extended (Version 13.0 64-bit) and successfully opened png (through File Open and drag and drop), saved jpeg as png, and performed liquify without any crashes.

NIK software plug-ins also functioning fine, as they were in CS6 beta.

Please consider my specific crash problems experienced under CS6 beta, and noted in previous posts, solved in CS6 Extended "final release" / retail version.

Well, at least it gives us some idea where to look.

But I haven't seen many other crashes in multiplugin like that.

We'll keep investigating.

Last but not least, event log error for attempt to open png crash.