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Inspiring
Mar 11, 2020 12:23 AM UTC
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P: Freezing, cursor stuck when scrolling/flick panning

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! 

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Participant
Oct 11, 2020 10:44 PM UTC

My son is learning Photoshop and using my app, and he said he hit a command and suddenly it switched to a mode where I can take the cursor and move my graphice around, but I cannot click on anything at all, not even the tabs at the top. He didn't save his work yet so I'm afraid to force quit. Have you found anything that might help so he can save his work at least? He was also zoomed in and just cleaning up some lines with a paintbrush tool. I cannot select anything at all other than the image and I can't do anythign with it. I can't even zoom in or out. Help!

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lake_house_photography
Participant
Oct 11, 2020 9:21 PM UTC

This started happening to me yesterday, and happened twice today. Suddenly I can no longer scroll around - either using the hand tool or the scroll bars. Luckily can still save. Need to exit PS and restart to give temporary fix. I am running Win10 64 bit, AMD Ryzen processor. 

 

Really hoping for a fast fix as very disruptive. 

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Known Participant
Sep 26, 2020 10:38 PM UTC

This has been happening to me as well, would really like a fix to this. A lot of times I'll save, reopen the document and it immediately freezes again as I'm zooming back in on the spot I was working on.

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Known Participant
Sep 24, 2020 9:05 PM UTC

Same problem, reported this many many times but still no fix. Just simple scrolling and panning with spacebar and wacom pen causes freeze on working window. 
ADOBE SUPPORT !! WHERE ARE YOU ??
tired of being used as a beta tester while paying for this

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Participant
Sep 24, 2020 5:14 PM UTC

You can also add me to the list, this has been very annoying. Always gotta save my work, close the document and reopen to fix it.

Happened to me yesterday 5 times in the matter of an hour.

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tun723
Participant
Sep 24, 2020 4:58 AM UTC

same here on Windows 10 64bit, AMD ryzen 3900x, RTX2060

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SarahRosey
Participant
Sep 24, 2020 2:53 AM UTC

SOLUTION!! 

PixImperfect the photoshop god uploaded a video today on how to fix this, its just a simple click of the button!

Please make sure to give him some love for his help. This fixed the issue for me, thank goodness he figured it out because clearly, Adobe wasn't giving us answers. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNQMsF9hgdM&ab_channel=PiXimperfect 

 

EDIT: JUST KIDDING, STILL FREEZING, JUMPED THE GUN BECAUSE I WAS EXCITED ugh

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Mar 31, 2021 5:09 AM UTC

Hi Sarah,

I have been using CC 2020 for almost a year.  I never had scrolling issues, until today.
The video link that you posted saved the day.


Thanks.

 

-Phil-

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melodyt33322275
Participant
Sep 20, 2020 10:25 PM UTC

I've also been experiencing this issue as well, my only solution was to roll back the photoshop to before the 21.1 update and I haven't had issues since. Adobe really needs to fix this issue. 

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SarahRosey
Participant
Sep 19, 2020 2:39 AM UTC

Add me to the list of people experiencing this! Still no fix??

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Participant
Sep 20, 2020 10:09 AM UTC

I still have this problem, the cursor is super slow, can't work with this.

Is adobe doing anything about this?

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philh7091657
Participant
Sep 14, 2020 8:59 PM UTC

This is also happening to me on a Windows 10 machine. Scrolling a zoomed image with either keyboard (space bar) and mouse or a pen and Tablet. I am abe to save the file and reopen, but this is now happening more frequently and is becomming very disruptive.

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