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March 11, 2020

P: Freezing, cursor stuck when scrolling/flick panning

  • March 11, 2020
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Hi, over the years we've generally found Photoshop to be one of the most stable of all apps we use. But lately, it's been freezing a lot when doing relatively simple editing. We've updated to the very latest version (21.1.2) on a late 2013 Mac Pro with 24GB RAM. 

 

What seems to be causing the freeze is just scrolling around a zoomed-in image when using the spot healing brush tool on grayscale TIF images that aren't overly huge or complex. But this may just be coincidence since it's a pretty common task. But using the space-bar scroll will just suddenly freeze and the image becomes completely unresponsive. Fortunately, I am typically still able to access menus, including 'File/Save'! Sometimes I'm able to just save & re-open the file to get it to work again, other times I must restart PS.

 

- Is this common? 

- Anything we can try to resolove (if clearing prefs, any specific - as they seem to be pretty widespread and in multiple places)?

 

Seems like this has only recently started happening, so not sure if one of the recent updates has caused this. We've never experienced this kind of thing with PS over the years.

 

Thanks! 

67 replies

Participant
May 10, 2023

I am also experiencing this issue in 2023. When panning by holding Space and Left Click, when I let go of Left Click, the "hand" stays on my screen, and gets stuck, as if I'm still holding down Left Click. When panning on a large document while zoomed in, this is incredibly frustrating. I just want to be able to pan across my image without it being hung up, telling me to disable features is an unaccpetable solution, and they don't work anyway. I can't believe I pay monthly for software that still bugs out on simple things like this for YEARS without any fix provided other than "disable features." Absolutely pathetic customer service.

Participant
April 10, 2023

Still an issue in 2023. Happens reproducibly with a Wacom tablet and standard settings.

 

Disabling flick panning, GPU acceleration or animated zoom is very disruptive and not a solution. Using "UseSystemStylus 0" in the PS config, as some others have posted here, solves the problem seemingly without compromises.

 

Adobe, would you kindly fix your software bug already and remove the poor pinned solutions from this thread? This is quite an upsetting and obvious problem.

Participating Frequently
April 19, 2022

Hello, there is a bug which existed since I bought photoshop, this bug happens frequently and can be reproduced reliably on my PC. Basically, when zooming and panning while drawing on my table, sometimes the canvas freezes completely, Photoshop is still running, I can close the document and reopen it to fix the issue, but it happens too frequently that it is starting to frustrate me a little bit, I attached a video which shows how I reproduced the issue, I was basically panning and moving the canvas while drawing.

 

I have a Huion H610Pro V2 tablet, my PC is pretty beefy, 32GB ram and Ryzen 2700.

 

 

 

Participating Frequently
April 19, 2022

Ah, well, ignore the first video, it was wrong, this video is the correct one.

The bug happens at 00:56

 

Inspiring
April 4, 2022

Gente,

 

Alguém já presenciou este erro, durante a edição de fotos o photoshop simplesmente para de funcionar as funcões dele na foto em que eu estava editando, as outras fotos abertas ainda funcionam, este erro está ocorrendo constantemente quando edito, uso a ultima versão disponivel na Creative Cloud.

 

Segue link do vídeo onde ocorre o erro, avancem para 09:00 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6qGwjHFzIE&ab_channel=RafaelOliveira

Legend
April 4, 2022

Go to Preferences > Tools... and uncheck "Enable Flick Panning" and "Animated Zoom". Restart Photoshop. Does the problem go away?

Participant
February 8, 2022

Hi Jeff I have the same probl as everyone above but I've already deselected animated zoom and enable flick planning. Do you have any other solutions? I'm using a Wacom cintiq pro and I use windows. All of my drivers are updated and so is Photoshop. I have a deadline that's seems impossible to finish when I need to restart the program and computer 10-20 times a day.

Participant
January 26, 2022

Photoshop CC 23.1.1

 

Windows 10 Home

Version 21H1

OS Build 19043.1466

 

Hello, here is my problem. The hand tool when selected from the tools works as intended. I am able to pan with a great degree of control. However, while using the spacebar it only partially works.

 

Firstly, The hand tool lets you let go of the mouse while scrolling (which is good). The view retains its momentum and slows to a stop (also good). The trouble is that while the view is slowing down the view does not seem to update the motion if you attempt to pan again while the view is still in motion. After the motion stops the view updates and usually looks like a jarring jump to the new location. I have a video attached showcasing the bug. You can see that while the view is sliding I move it in another direction and the view jumps after a delay.

 

This issue only happens when using the spacebar with the hand tool. The regular hand tool works as expected. The view updates and changes directions when clicked and moved.

 

 

Legend
January 26, 2022

Go to Preferences > Tools... and uncheck "Enable Flick Panning" and "Animated Zoom" off. Does the problem go away?

Talietty
Known Participant
December 28, 2021

Hello,

I have noticed when working on a project a function (such as painting) will suddenly stop working - it looks like it's working, but does nothing.  When I close the file, then re-open the file, the exact same function works...  seems odd, but thought I'd share in the event this is something that can be looked into.

 

( PS 23.1 - Windows 11 version 21H2)

 

Thanks

Legend
December 28, 2021

If you go to to Preferences > Tools... and uncheck "Enable Flick Panning" off. Does the problem go away?

Michael Lande Publicis
Participating Frequently
December 10, 2021

The flick panning issue just came back for me. It happened as I flick and went a little to far outside of the document window. Guess I have to turn off flick panning again unless Adobe is planning to fix this.

frédéricd62089612
Participant
December 7, 2021

Bonjour à tous, 

 

A la suite d'un passage à Win 10 et donc d'un réinstall complète de la suite Adobe avec photoshop 23.0.2, je rencontre désormais un problème, mon photoshop se gele, mais ne plante pas, à savoir que je ne peux plus rien faire sur le document, ni zoomer, ni dessiner , ni déplacer des objets, rien, cependant je peux enregistrer mon travail mais je dois ferme photoshop de manière "normale" avant de le réouvrir, cela arrive aléatoirement mais BIEN TROP SOUVENT.

 

Parmis les solutions essayées, réinstalle d'une version antérieure de photoshop 22.0, idem, réinstalle d'une version antérieur de mon driver de carte graphique, idem.

 

Est ce que quelqu'un parmis vous a déja svp rencontrer ce problème ? ou quelqu'un de l'assistance aurait-il une solution ?  

 

Merci d'avance 

Legend
December 7, 2021

Go to Preferences > Tools... and uncheck "Enable Flick Panning" off. Does the problem go away?

Participant
November 18, 2021

Since I have a brand-new PC, the latest Photoshop version, some issues occur when I use it: the appli "freeze" sometimes when I use the Move Tool. I can still roll Menues, save and so on. But, I can't use other tools anymore. The Move tool is blocked. Surprisingly, another open document will not be "freezed" and will work normally. I have to close and open the file again to keep working.

I have disabled everything in connection with Windows Ink, I added PSUserConfig.txt in the PS settings as I was told, but I still got that problem while working... I thought it was perhaps in connection with older PS files, but no.

 

My stuff:

Updated W10

Updated Photoshop version

Wacom Intuos 4 PTK640 (with updated pilote)

Keyboard Logitech K120+mouse

 

Any solutions?

Thanks

gomezg27464431
Participant
November 18, 2021

Same issue here with both 23.0.1 and 22.5.3, it's really annoying.