One thing I have seen that I haven't seen mentioned on this thread is that for some reason, SL wants PS's Scratch Disk to be set to the Boot Disk. So if, like me you had the Primary Scratch disk set to another dive, set it back to your Mac's boot disk and see if that helps.

I have been all over the forums trying to stop getting emails from 

every post on this thread.  The site indicates that it's turned off, 

I've NEVER asked for these emails before and have never gotten them 

before.  How do I stop getting an email every time someone posts to 

this discussion?  Thanks!

I have an Nvidia GeForce 8600m GT. I have all the same crashes you all have. Running on a MBP3,1 Core 2 Duo, 2.2GHz, 4gb ram (crucial branded),

I did a simple upgrade from Leopard 10.5.8 to Snow Leopard today. I run Creative Suite 4, primarily Photoshop 11.0.0 and Illustrator. I didn't not have any problems using Illustrator but Photoshop crashed every time I tried to save a file, specifically with the "Save for web" dialog. I upgraded to 11.0.1, and removed all third-party plugins, but the problem persisted. I uninstalled Photoshop with Adobe's uninstaller and then reinstalled Photoshop and upgraded again to 11.0.1, but the problem persisted.

I was able to duplicate the crash 100% of the time. Once I saved a file for the web, Photoshop simply crashed without an error message. I was only met with the Crash Report utility.

I was able to avoid a crash by disabling the OpenGL option in my Preferences > Performance. Immediately upon deselecting this option I was able to successfully save the for the web without a crash. I have not yet reinstalled third-party plugins to test further.

I hope my experience helps someone out there as this is a very frustrating issue.

Below is the profile for this particular system. Not the video card as this may be related to the problem.

Model Name:    iMac
  Model Identifier:    iMac9,1
  Processor Name:    Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed:    3.06 GHz
  Number Of Processors:    1
  Total Number Of Cores:    2
  L2 Cache:    6 MB
  Memory:    4 GB
  Bus Speed:    1.07 GHz
  Boot ROM Version:    IM91.008D.B08
  SMC Version (system):    1.45f0

Chipset Model:    ATI Radeon HD 4850
  Type:    GPU
  Bus:    PCIe
  PCIe Lane Width:    x16
  VRAM (Total):    512 MB
  Vendor:    ATI (0x1002)
  Device ID:    0x944a
  Revision ID:    0x0000
  ROM Revision:    113-B9090C-181
  EFI Driver Version:    01.00.327
  Displays:
iMac:
  Resolution:    1920 x 1200
  Pixel Depth:    32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
  Main Display:    Yes
  Mirror:    Off
  Online:    Yes
  Built-In:    Yes

Please reread my post. I was trying to offer a solution that worked for me to everyone else.

My apologies for trying to help.

By the way, I read the entire thread.

I am using:

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT:

  Chipset Model:    ATI Radeon HD 2600
  Type:    GPU
  Bus:    PCIe
  Slot:    Slot-1
  PCIe Lane Width:    x16
  VRAM (Total):    256 MB
  Vendor:    ATI (0x1002)
  Device ID:    0x9588
  Revision ID:    0x0000
  ROM Revision:    113-B1480A-252
  EFI Driver Version:    01.00.252

... and crashing all the time.  Re-installed SL and re-installed PS CS4 - no improvement.

Chris,

Thanks for your post on this subject.  It's good to hear from someone that the problems being reported are seen as valid.

There are, of course, two crash reporters.  Apple's and Adobe's.  Does Apple share data with Adobe, or does anyone know whether Apple has acknowledged this problem?

Also, I most certainly hope that Adobe is getting the right data.  The latest crash that I experienced (opened a JPEG, modified it, then tried to save the modified version with a different name) generated Apple and Adobe crash reports, but when I looked at the crash data to be sent to Adobe, I found that it was pointing to an XQuartz crash, not the PS crash.

Uh, just to make myself feel better, I'm appending it to this posting.

Can I presume everyone else out here is seeing the same thing?

Finally, my own personal opinion: I haven't upgrade any critical systems to Snow Leopard as yet.  I think issues like this are to be expected.  Chris, I  just would ask whether there is one place you can point CS4 (PS and the suite in general, since I like others are seeing this in all of the CS4 apps) for updates?  It'd be good to know asap about any workarounds or solutions that are developed.

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Hi Larry,

In your post did you say that you did  just an upgrade from 10.5.8 to 10.6 and your CS4 is working just fine? Do you also have installed LR 2.4 and is it also working fine?

Thanks,

Jim

I also installed OS X 10.6.1 and Photoshop CS4 is much better.  The crashes during save seem to be gone (at least in my initial testing).  Yea!

I am still getting a crash each time I quit Bridge.

So apparently the crash on save problem with Photoshop CS4 seems to have been fixed with Mac Os X 10.6.1?

I was experiencing it too...

Thanks for updating this thread!

Daniele

Ouch...

I have a Unibody MBP 15'' (Late 2008).

So I guess I'll be holding off on the upgrade for a little longer.

I think it has something to do with fonts too. I have not had a crash since I upgraded to 10.6. I use FontAgent Pro and have it manage my system fonts. I have also disabled all the fonts that FontBook will allow me to disable.

Exactly, I have a Mac Pro too and it's running smoothly. No crashes at all.

It's my MBP that's giving me such a hard time...

I can't think of specific differences between the two systems other than drivers and hardware-related stuff. But I see that other MBP owners aren't experiencing such problems, so I'm left wondering where the problem could come from...

I guess that could be it. But it's strange that the crashes happen on Save even in documents without any kind of text in it.

I've reverted back to Leopard days ago because I can't afford lowering my productivity right now. That's why I can't test it.

Thanks anyway for the tip.

I haven't installed Snow Leopard yet, and won't do so till I get assured that all those bugs have been resolved, but, just for arguments' sake, how to proceed to check if a certain fon type is causing all that havok?

I agree what DYP said, and you need to realize that a large percentage of us in this forum have 2000-5000 fonts to manage.

I use font doctor to fix things like duplicates, damaged fonts, etc in my font library. I advocate using font agent pro as well for management.  I run coctail, reset the PRAM, disk warrior, and sign on as a single user using fsck -fy sometimes. I'm not sure if this helps you, but I use ifreememory to keep my system running as fast as I can push it.

With all of this going on, I have never had a problem with the PSC 4 suite.

I've been using "Snow" for several days now and the above makes things work "perfecto".