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October 29, 2021

P: Photoshop can't open, freezes on splash image, uses all of ram trying to open then crashes.

I have googled every possible variation of this problem and tried every fix for this problem, none of them worked. I have tried reinstalling photoshop, deleting everything even remotely related to photohop in the appdata, deleting custom fonts, restarting the computer, updating graphics and computer, and holding every possible combination of alt, ctrl and shift while trying to launch in administrator mode. The result is always the same. It opens the splash image, gets to loading preferences or brushes, spikes RAM usage to every last byte of RAM I have, freezes the computer, then crashes.

 

And no i'm not running it on a potato i'm running it on an Alienware Aurora 4090, it should have more than enough power to handle this and Photoshop ran perfectly fine for months. Then just today it crashed and has never started up again.

Photoshop version 25.11

 

Help.

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Kevin Stohlmeyer
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 7, 2024

@Joshua37741206ruiv start with just the Media Encoder Beta.

Participant
August 7, 2024

I've been trying to open to Photoshop, Beta and Standard, all day with no luck. Both apps stop on the "Reading Preferences" portion of the initial startup and then crashes. I've updated my MacOS to the most recent version, I've used the adobe cleaner, I've gone to previous versions that worked and nothing has been successful. Please help!

emmgee2004
Participant
August 7, 2024

That seems to be the only known fix that works without having to delete anything else. Just the beta apps.

Participant
August 7, 2024

So I have to delete every single beta application? I'm only having problems opening Adobe Illustrator and photoshop. After effects and premeire pro are working fine.

Participant
August 7, 2024

Same here. I had Beta Media Encoder and Beta Premiere and unistalled both, restarted and all is back to normal. What a frustrating morning of not getting sh!t done at work!

Participating Frequently
August 7, 2024

I attempted to open v25.11 on MacOs14.6. It goes into a hang and wont load. 

Participating Frequently
August 7, 2024

I did a restart, but get an error msg 'error enabling sync'. Why? Where? How?

Inspiring
August 8, 2024

Hi there. We're sorry for the trouble. I am merging this thread with the parent thread. 

The bug is already logged, and the team is working to fix it. 

 

The current workaround is to use Creative Cloud Desktop Cleaner:

https://adobe.ly/3LX2XyN

 

Thanks, 

Shivani 

 

Participant
August 7, 2024

Hi, i just wanted to add in here to confirm the issue and the solution.


After an update on Monday Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign and Incopy stopped working. Even older versions which i had installed.
They froze at some point on the splash screen, RAM was filling up to 100% (32GB) and evantually crash the system.

After Effects, Lightroom Clissic, Animate, Premiere for example weren't affected.

I tried several methods (un-reinstall and what not) - but the ONLY solution was to use the cleaner tool and COMPLETELY CLEAN ALL Adobe apps from my system. First i tried to clean selected apps and services but that didn't work.


For support team i uploaded a Log Collector File before clearing the issue (AdobeLogs_20240806_094648_101-win-GS.zxp). Maybe that helps somehow idk.


I lost 2 days in fixing this and restore my settings and i still need to get older apps versions from support (since adobe locked them away) to get me back on track working again. Consider me as a very angry person.

Thanks. bye.

Participant
August 7, 2024

Thank you

I use Clean Up and reinstall Adobe cloud and photoshop and now it works 

CShubert
Community Manager
Community Manager
August 7, 2024

Hi everyone, for MAC customers, how many seeing this issue are Mac arm vs Mac Intell?

 

Thanks,

Cory

Known Participant
August 7, 2024

I wanted to reply to say that deleting all of the beta apps I had installed worked for me. Seems odd, but it did the trick! thanks!