Illustrator crashes on Saving

[#1]

For the last 2 hours Illustrator keeps crashing on saving locally.

Things I have tried:

* restating computer

*saving blank page

* un installing and re installing illustrator

* installing earlier version of illustrator

All to no avail...... any ideas people.... dont know what else I can do?

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Which version?

Which system?

Where do you save your files?

Is a printer installed, set up as default printer and turned on? If not: install a PDF printer.

[#3]

Hi Monika

The printer thing worked. Bit weird as always had printer installed and never had a problem before. Just suddenly, half way through yesterday the problem started. Having read some of your replys to others with similar issues I tried setting a defualt printer and it seems to have worked.

Bit of an odd glitch but hay, I can save again... woohoo

[#4]

Glad to see that it helped. Thank you for your feedback!

[#5]

I didn't have this problem before until today. What a software has to do with printer? PS does have many hiccups along the way. Use a different program to finish your work instead of wasting hours looking for solution.

[#6]

Illustrator saves printer information into the file.

When it cannot find a printer, it crashes.

[#7]

You're right. I could see the printer when I clicked print in a web page and Phototshop. But in Illustrator > print, I got the spinning circle and it quit. How do I set the printer for illustrator in Mac? 

[#8]

You need to set it up in the system as the default printer.

After system updates sometimes the printer gets lost. Or the driver doesn't work anymore.