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I can confirm I have the same problem with CS4 Design Premium. At least Bridge, Flash, Photoshop and Illustrator have sometimes given me error messages when quit. It doesn't seem to have any adverse effect on the system, so I'm not that concerned. I'll admit it's very annoying though.

I have two systems - a mac pro 2008, on which I rarely get errors, and a macbook late 2007, on which I frequently get errors. I'll have to try the new user test when I have a little more time.

Same problem here too....It's especially bad with Bridge, but I've seen it in DW, and Flash.

AE is horrible but I've been told it's related to an open script window.

This has been going on for quite some time and I'm amazed it's not been fixed.

I don't have an issue with crashing - they just take forever and a day to actually quit.

I've had the same problem ever since I've upgraded to CS4.

I'm not even sure the apps are crashing, but possibly just triggering the crash reporter incorrectly? Have you tried reinstalling the suite? I was also considering turning off the crash reporter. I haven't because I don't want to ignore the issue in case it causes corruption or other issues down the road.

Hi

I have the problem when Spaces is turned on. If so, all the apps form the CS4 design standard will crash (I'm not shure if Acrobat crashes too). If I work without Spaces--which I usually do--I have hardly any problems with crashing.

Try to rebuild your preferences: Press and hold down cmd+alt+crtl+shift and double-click the application in your application folder. Hold down the keys as long as a dialog appears. (This doesn't work for Illustrator and Acrobat).

Maybe the apps have some issue with the cocoa/carbon integration. I hope that this issue will be fixed with CS5 and/or SnowLeopard.

Martin,

Using the command+option+control+shift on launch seems to fix the solution. I don't use spaces so I know that wasn't causing the problem. Maybe it did when I experimenting with it a long time ago. But doing that fix not only fixed the crashing, Photoshop launches almost instantly. Before it took over 10 seconds. Maybe it has something to do with the type fonts because I don't see that bar anymore.

THANKS!

command+option+control+shift doesn't fix the issue here.

I don't use Spaces.

Using the command+option+control+shift on launch seems to fix the solution for me too.  I'll check back if it shows up again.

It does the same with After Effects after working with heavy stuff. I wonder if it's taking the time to close everything off the scratch disk..... All the history, layers, etc needs to be removed.

Adding fuel to the fire...CS4 apps have been crashing upon quit all along. Usually not Bridge or Acrobat, often Photoshop and InDesign, nearly always Illustrator. (I don't use other CS4 apps much.) My current suspicions have been centered around Illustrator, as other apps tend to quit normally if Illustrator hasn't been started up. (Various telltales have led me to question if Illustrator plays nice with RAM.) But it sounds like other users are having similar problems without implicating Illustrator. Didn't have this problem with CS3 and earlier at all. Upgraded from 4GB RAM to 8GB about the same time as CS4, when CS4 was released, so that could be a factor. RAM is from Rambus and Crucial, and tests and performs flawlessly. Also upgraded to Leopard at about the same time, and so I also have suspicions about Leopard, which has been much more finicky than Tiger. Running 10.5.7 (Spaces turned off) on a dual G5. (And, yes, I also have suspicions about Power PC vs. Intel chips.) All CS4 updates are applied, and system housekeeping is kept up-to-date (Disk Warrior, Cocktail). In my estimation there is a flaw in CS4, possibly stemming from how it interacts with Leopard, RAM, and/or Power PCs.

Yes, the problem is flaky, which might favor a complex behavior difficult to pin down because of shifting variables (i.e., a moving target). Crash-on-quit happens immediately (or nearly so) upon invoking quit, which implies that whatever happens during the normally drawn out quit process is largely left undone. The irony is that, barring any real world consequences, this is like a "Fast Quit" feature--but with an annoying crash alert tacked on.

I continue to have this issue as well. I was hoping Snow Leopard would help, but still it continues. There must be a solution. I've tried every suggestion on this thread without any luck. I wish Adobe would acknowledge this (or if they have, point us in that direction). The most annoying side effect is having all my application settings forgotten every time I quit an application.

How do I disable Growl?

Thanks

adman1

Oops... Another InDesign crash. Back to the drawing board, I'm afraid.

Strange. If you use a CS4 app only for a short while, it will quit without invoking Crash Reporter. Only if you have been using it a bit longer, Crash Reporter rears its ugly head.

Cheers,

Sander

I've used Adobe apps since 1988. I've used the CS suite since they changed the branding. In 2005 I started at a company on a 2x1.8 G5 Mac Pro in Panther. CS and CS2 worked flawlessly, even after upgrading to Tiger. When I upgraded to CS3 the apps got very unstable. Quitting after a day's work (AI and PS were open all day with ID often joining them) always hung each and every app. Then a force quit was necessary in order to shut down the computer for a day (old habits die hard). I held back on CS4 until I upgraded my box to a 8-core Mac Pro. CS4 is more of the same. I now leave my box in sleep mode at the end of the day, but if I were to quit the apps, they do trigger the annoying crash reporter, and of course my prefs are not saved if changed. This is most annoying when I want the convenience of using recent file open. This is not your father's Adobe.

bobisr23a wrote:

 

I just purchased Photoshop CS4 Essential and my pc crashes...

Hi bobisr23a.

Do you have all updates installed for the Adobe Apps?

Use the Adobe updater for this--go to the help menu in photoshop and choose update.

Best regards

Martin

I did the updates and so far it seems to have solved the problem. Thanks.

After I wrote my reply stating that it seemed to work for me my Bridge Program locked up and would not allow me to do anything. I had to reboot. I have about 20000 images registered in the Bridge program and I am wondering if it is due to a limited number of computer resources. Photoshop is doing better I think.

Also in my first post about this issue I stated that I have CS4 Essentials. I meant to write CS4 Extended. Sorry about any confusion. I am new to this product.

Just found this thread whilst searching because I have had the exact same problem since loading up Illustrator CS4 in November last year. All system software up to date, sent multiple emails via the crash report screen, still no joy. The app still crashes every time I quit. Spaces switched off, so that's not the issue. And why should I switch a system pref off anyway for one application? Considering the expanse of the thread, it's nice to see someone from Adobe getting involved. My solution? I'm using Freehand MX and QuarkXpress more and more at the moment. Problem solved.

Hello. "Spaces" was always off and I'm still crashing. Would you say that these are duplicate plugins?:

B-c-2.plugin

B-C.plugin

Levels.plugin

Levels2.plugin

Lighting.plugin

Lighting2.plugin

Thanks,

Benjamin

2x2.66 GHz Quad-Core AE 9.0.2 OS 10.6.2; I hold down "6 4" on boot for 64 bit mode.

Thanks for your response. All plugins have the exact same created/modified time/date, I'll try disabling the 2s, but they look like different files with different file sizes...

Strangely, *all* of my After Effects Plugins display "Kind" as "Soundbooth Plugin" in column view. I repair permissions regularly. Not sure if this is related to the quitting issue, but anyone else have this mismatch?

Thanks,

B