Adobe Illustrator CS4 Hanging
I have an aluminum iMac running Snow Leopard at 3.06 gHz with 4 GB of memory. I'm also using Illustrator CS4 which has proven to be quite buggy and I can't seem to pinpoint the problem.
It will open documents of various sizes and complexity for five to six times with no trouble, either over a network or locally. However, I'll try to open or create a new document and the beach ball will spin. I'll have to force quit Illustrator, but even when I relaunch it the same problem occurs the first time I try to open a file.
The only fix I've found is a hard restart which leads me to believe it's a memory management issue with the app. This leads me to ask two questions:
1. Is anyone else out there experiencing this? I've been to Adobe's support forums and they are no help.
2. Is there a utility out there to purge memory from a single app or simulate a restart by resetting memory and the like? The restarts really hamper productivity.
Any help or insight is appreciated. Thanks.
It will open documents of various sizes and complexity for five to six times with no trouble, either over a network or locally. However, I'll try to open or create a new document and the beach ball will spin. I'll have to force quit Illustrator, but even when I relaunch it the same problem occurs the first time I try to open a file.
The only fix I've found is a hard restart which leads me to believe it's a memory management issue with the app. This leads me to ask two questions:
1. Is anyone else out there experiencing this? I've been to Adobe's support forums and they are no help.
2. Is there a utility out there to purge memory from a single app or simulate a restart by resetting memory and the like? The restarts really hamper productivity.
Any help or insight is appreciated. Thanks.
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