P: Photoshop 23.2 freezes on macOS while changing layer styles/opacity on a PSB file

I will add, that dumping your prefferences to try and get the program to work as intended really shouldn't be a suggested solution. Having to reset up how you prefer to work in photoshop is time consuming. Maybe that solution works for people who don't care about their time (who doesn't actually care about their time?) But its not for those who need to remain efficient so they can meet deadlines and remian profitable. I love photoshop, but I find myself using procreate more and more for projects that it will work for. Less bugs, less sluggishness, more time actually illustrating. 

I'm going to wait a couple of days to see how others respond. These bugs cost time and being contract it HURTS when the programs are buggy. 

yes, this can be done, but why do we have to burden of fixing what should have been done correctly by Adobe. Re setting perferences can also create a whole new set of issues if we have special preferences set up.

What issues and why does this often, very often, fix so many issues?

How do you know the corruption is solely from Adobe and not other areas of you system? You don't.

Make a screen capture of the pref's to have.

Make a COPY of the pref's when the app runs fine.

Go back to a back up of a good copy.

I wrote them the same thing... I agree with you!

yes, this can be done, but why do we have to burden of fixing what should have been done correctly by Adobe.  Re setting perferences can also create a whole new set of issues if we have special preferences set up.

Me to exact same problem!

Updated without issue on this end this morning:

As Jeffery suggested, a restart is usually the fix.

@imnotwordy Restart your computer to unfreeze any background processes and try to install the update.

Seems to be a new bug/issue because CC has found a conflict with 'Adobe CR Daemon' and won't let me update to the latest version. Force quit 'Adobe CR Daemon' in activity monitor, but as soon as I press the update button in CC, then 'Adobe CR Daemon' starts back up... so I am stuck...

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