Photoshop CS5 freezes

I was having the same problem, but not anymore. The problem seems to be happening from some font that isn't getting detected in all those programs to find corrupt fonts.

I copied all my fonts into a separate folder and backed up my entire computer on an external. Then, I wiped my system clean and upgraded to 10.6.4 from 10.5.8. After that I reinstalled everything. I keep my previous fonts in that separate folder on my desktop so if I happen to need a font that isn't installed, I install it when it is needed. Then if the problem arrises again I will know what font it is.

Since starting over with a clean slate and only having the necessary and a small amount of fonts installed to do my everyday work, I have not had a problem. I would suggest anyone having problems to try this out. It has helped me tremendously by being able to get work done!

I am running 10.5.8.  I have 2 x 2.8 Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, 16 GB 800 mhz DDR2 chips.  I have an ATI Radeon HD 2600 graphics card, and I have just cleared my font caches and turned off OGL. I have checked all my fonts and I do not have Font Agent.

I rebooted was up for about 30sec and FREEZE. I have this freeze several times per day.  We have several machines of the same design and all are doing the same thing.

All that I am reading is finger pointing, which is no help to your loyal users. I understand everyone getting upset about paying this much money and not being able to use it. I really don't care whose fault it is, I just would like it fixed.

Is my only option to able to work, is going back and reinstalling CS4?  Everything worked great with it.

Holding my breath, but clearing all the font caches with FontNuke has made the problem go away, at least for a while. Been working for 30 minutes or so with no problems and never did that before.

Okay,  I just unwittingly uploaded brand new CS5 Design Premium w/Photoshop Extended this morning.

My machine:

MacPro Dual Quad Core (Xeon) at 2.8 GHz

12GB Memory @ 667Mhz

OS X 10.5.8

ATI Radeon HD 2600 Graphics Card

Problem:  Exactly as has been described over & over in this forum.  Launch Photoshop CS5 no problem.  Click on Type tool.  Machine freezes and takes 10-20 minutes to Force Quit.

What should I do?  I read through about 70% of the posts, and have little confidence that a helpline from Adobe is going to be a productive use of my time.  Do I need to just keep using CS4 til a fix comes?  I'm OK with that, but others I work with may not be.

Thanks for any possible assistance.

First of all I don't want to hear from anyone if my spelling is wrong or if I don't give all the info on what machine I am running or anything else that isn't of great importance; I'm not in the mood!!!!

I was using  PS5 for about a month without any problems; prior to that the beta version without any problems, Photoshop is now freezing every time I try to open it. I also upgraded to Safari 5 when it was released and Safari is freezing now. I don't know the connection; don't know how to unravel the two problems.

I unchecked 32mode in Photoshop and in Safari; now the opening window for PS says ver.12 x 64 but is completely freezing after booting up and I have to force quit it.

I have double checked my 3rd part plugins; made sure they were compatible, deleted anything I wasn't sure about.

I also upgraded to Lightroom 3 without any problems.

Since Safari isn't an Adobe product, I don't know if I can get answers on that here but it's strange that they are both freezing.

Thanks for any help and I will add anything if it would help isolate the problem.

Macbook Pro 17" Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 ghz 3 gb ram   NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT [can't find upgrade drivers for this for Mac] - Snow Leopard

In the future know that I will not respond to anything that is not on the subject if you come here to play then you do not have trouble with photoshop.

or at least you can not be taken seriously.

Just chiming in....I've had the occasional freeze here and there, usually not worth much more than an eyeroll and re-launch, but now I have something consistent.

I have a reasonably large (2770x1957) jpg (1.7 MB) that needs some touching up--specifically, cloning.  When I use the stamp tool, it works for a few seconds and then Photoshop freezes.  Consistently and always with this image.  I don't use the Stamp very often so this may be the first time I've used the tool since upgrading to CS5.  It freezes whether I (1) clone-and-stamp to the same layer as the original (background layer of the original jpg); (2) create a new layer, save as psd, and clone to the new layer; or (3) copy the contents of the original jpg into a new document, create a new layer, and try to clone to that.  First time it happened, I had a number of other documents open totaling several hundred MB.  Subsequent attempts to work on the image, even if it's the only document open, have all produced the same results.  Used my old installation of CS3 instead and it worked fine.

On a possibly-related note, preferences related to PS CS5 seem to be disappearing.  Over the past couple I noticed dialogs appearing that I've already told not to appear anymore (something to the effect of "you have too many layers/layer groups; this file may not be readable to older versions of Photoshop").  And the PS icon disappeared from the Dock for the second time this week.

Mysterious, indeed.

OS 10.6.4; 2x3GHz Dual-core, 24 GB RAM.

I am sorry to report that it is not the graphics card. Even though the the replacement gaaphics card is quieter the same freeze up has returned this speaks to the randomness of the freeze ups I worked in Photoshop CS4 for a couple of hours after i swapped the graphics card and the next day I was sure that the problem was addressed but yesterday the PC went right bask to freezing up every 15 or 20 minutes.

Some one was good enough to give  an Adobe website that gives one a step by step process for diagnosing freeze ups and I have been going through that agonizing procedure but so far it has revealed no incites, if I find something I will let everyone Know.

But hear lies the real problem I thought that i had foud the answer to the freeze up problem, only to find out a day and a half later that I had found nothing.

with this occurring randomly, it will take  a week or more of teasting after each perceived fix to be sure that I have truly found the real culprit.

As a case in point I tried working with the 64 bit Quad core 8gig CS5 system after trying some of the changes in the performence settings that was suggested on the website for freeze ups and I worked for almost four hours with a large file with mutable layers, paths, and channels but then i was simpley painting a small area with a 20 pixel brush and it froze up.

I do think that we will not get a lot of attention until there are a lot more of us. the mac people did wave a problem that was not exactly the same but I read all of the posts and although ther problem  was centered around the fonts, it goes to show that there is a definiet issue there and the post states that they have solved that problem bbut how was it solved there are mac people now coming to this post because they have tried all the supposed fixes and they  still have the problem.

having said that I do not want my money back I want a usable application and of course I want it soon before I hert myself physically and finanicially beating  this PC into submission with a sledge hammer    

Did the update fix everyone's issues? I'm still having freezes. Ironically I had cleaned up my fonts before the update and it seemed to be running better. Then when I updated the freezes returned.