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07/12/2008 12:25:58 AM · #1 |
okay so i just shot some headshots today, and i was going through and editing and cloning out minor blemishes, etc., and stupid me didn't save as a went along, and i had like 20 shots almost all done, and for SOME REASON stupid photoshop 'encountered a problem and needs to close'. so BAM! all my hard work (about 2 hours worth) is GONE!
im so mad at myself for not saving.
dhgljshgjashdgjhgjsk grr. |
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07/12/2008 12:52:44 AM · #2 |
| When using Windows it's best, always, to save as you go along. but I guess you figured that out already ;) |
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07/12/2008 01:35:04 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by Katmystiry:
When using Windows it's best, always, to save as you go along. but I guess you figured that out already ;) |
That's true of "crash-proof" Macs as well. |
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07/12/2008 01:39:47 AM · #4 |
Shortly before I graduated from my art school, I was walking down the hall and just happened to be right by the open door of the computer room when a car hit & took out the power pole on the corner about 25 feet from the school(like the car severed it). I have NEVER heard so many expletives in unison before or since..... and yes, they were all Macs but I don't think that had anything to do with it! :-)
Edit: grammar
Message edited by author 2008-07-12 01:40:25. |
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07/12/2008 01:55:57 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by Ristyz:
a car hit & took out the power pole on the corner about 25 feet from the school(like the car severed it). I have NEVER heard so many expletives in unison before or since..... |
Yes, that's taking a "computer crash" to a whole new level.
Actually, a very similar crash occurred on my street a few years ago ... it looked quite odd to see the upper 2/3 of the pole hanging from the high-voltage lines. |
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07/12/2008 02:07:38 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by LMA128:
im so mad at myself for not saving. |
That makes two of us. I'm so mad at you, too. >:| |
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07/12/2008 02:12:28 AM · #7 |
meh well thats like 2 hours of my life ill never get back! BUT i know ill never do it again. so i guess thats a plus.
oh well i re-edited them all now so its all good. :] |
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07/12/2008 02:16:54 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by LMA128:
oh well i re-edited them all now so its all good. :] |
Good to hear. We've all been there. Well usually it's just one image though. ;-)
Your second edits are probably better anyway. :) |
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07/12/2008 02:34:09 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Originally posted by LMA128:
oh well i re-edited them all now so its all good. :] |
Good to hear. We've all been there. Well usually it's just one image though. ;-)
Your second edits are probably better anyway. :) |
Yeah, and they (and probably all future edits) probably went faster too. |
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07/12/2008 10:47:01 AM · #10 |
| U.P.S.and not the delivery service.... I run a Liebert UPS on my systems here. This way power outages don't get me. APC is another good brand. As for the crash you should write down the error from your event viewer and go to the web and see what caused it. There may be a way to prevent this in the future. |
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07/12/2008 10:51:40 AM · #11 |
I think we've all done it at one time or another. The cool thing is that the 2nd edit almost always looks better than the first one did. :)
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07/12/2008 11:49:30 AM · #12 |
My crash proof Mac had photoshop encountered a problem and needs to close which freaked the hell outta me as I wasn't even using it at the time...
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07/12/2008 12:45:13 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by LMA128:
okay so i just shot some headshots today, and i was going through and editing and cloning out minor blemishes, etc., and stupid me didn't save as a went along, and i had like 20 shots almost all done, and for SOME REASON stupid photoshop 'encountered a problem and needs to close'. so BAM! all my hard work (about 2 hours worth) is GONE! |
Simplified version of how it was explained to me a long time ago: Photoshop has a cache and remembers everything you did to each image (even saved ones). If you are working on a large number of images at one time it can eventually run out of memory to store all the things you did. The number of images you can work on varies by how many, what size they are, how much you did to each, what tools you used, how much memory you have alloted PS to work with, etc. When I am making Photoshop work hard, every so often I close it and re-open it so it can clear that cache to avoid a crash. I even do this on large batch RAW conversions. I quit and relaunch about every 300 images. When editing individual images, I quit and relaunch when complicated proccesses start getting a bit slower than when I started. I have had very, very few surprise quits in the last few years. I'm on a Mac but I assume that the PS cache is similar on a PC. I think PS is one of the only programs that needs this.
20 images alone probably were not enough to kill it by themselves (depending on their size and work done) but if you hadn't closed PS in a few days, well, it could have been, and not hitting save on 20 images definitely exacerbated the issue. |
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07/12/2008 12:47:41 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by MAK:
My crash proof Mac had photoshop encountered a problem and needs to close which freaked the hell outta me as I wasn't even using it at the time... |
Ha! My old G4 on OS9 would mute itself if I left it on and idle for a day or two! First couple of times it freaked me out. Where's the sound! Never could figure out why but I didn't look very hard for a solution either. I just turned it off every night. |
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