I Lose all my preferences every time...

For me, when either Photoshop or Illustrator crashes, all of my preferences basically get trashed and when I re-open Photoshop and Illustrator, I have to go through all of my preferences and redo everything. That includes history states, file handling, etc ... All the things that I personalize. It seems like it's crashing a lot too for no real reason, like just now I was just saving a psd as a jpg and it went kaput.



It may seem like a small problem but it's happening everyday and re-creating my preferences takes time.



I'm on a 17'' MAC OSX with 2G Ram.
I Lose all my preferences every time...
Lisa,



Photoshop saves its preferences

only
at the time it shuts down in an orderly fashion.



If it crashes, or if you force quit the application, your preferences won't be saved at all.



Before advising you on the crashing issue, we would need a lot more details about your setup.



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I Lose all my preferences every time...
open photoshop set your prefs close photoshop.



now your prefs will hold. also save your custom workspace

once you get a Saved set of Ps preferences, copy it to a BACKUP folder



then when the prefs get flaky again, Quit Ps and copy the BACKUP back in



but I suspect something else is going on, try searching for TROUBLESHOOT MAINTENANCE this has been covered before

%26gt; http://www.gballard.net/macrant/osx_troubleshooting.html