Illustrator Open/Save Fix

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NefariousDrO

November 16, 2011, 12:44:09 PM
I'm not sure how many of you may have run into this, but my copy of Illustrator CS4 got so that its open/save operations could take upwards of 30 seconds to complete. The weird thing was that the file would be wherever I was saving almost immediately, but Illy would take forever to decide it was finished. After hunting around for a while I discovered a post on Apple's own forums for this very issue (dates all the way back to CS3, but still pops up with 5.5, apparently) What you do is open Adobe Bridge (even if you never use it) and go to the file menu/open recent and down at the bottom of the of the list is "clear menu". Suddenly saves and opens take only a second or two. Weird bug, nobody knows why it happens.

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November 16, 2011, 12:53:45 PM

 :goodpost:    great tip!

thanks for the heads up!
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November 16, 2011, 01:12:31 PM
Ditto, I'm passing the good word as we speak type.
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November 16, 2011, 01:19:59 PM
Just cleared it out myself Thanks!
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DigitalCrapShoveler

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November 16, 2011, 01:25:47 PM
I disabled Bridge out of the box... no need for it. Maybe that's why I have not seen this problem. Good tip, though.
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NefariousDrO

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November 16, 2011, 02:11:41 PM
That's what surprised me about this, I've never had this problem until now, and Bridge was disabled on this machine. I had to enable it in order to clear that cache.

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November 16, 2011, 02:12:53 PM
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DigitalCrapShoveler

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November 16, 2011, 02:35:19 PM
Quote from: NefariousDrO on November 16, 2011, 02:11:41 PMThat's what surprised me about this, I've never had this problem until now, and Bridge was disabled on this machine. I had to enable it in order to clear that cache.

Interesting. I work in AI daily, too much if I was asked. I'll look out for it, but something like that would bug the shit out of me. My Bridge is disabled as well. You running Snow Leopard?
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NefariousDrO

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November 16, 2011, 03:19:16 PM
I think it's a pretty rare issue. I've never encountered it on my home machine or any other work machines (6 or 8, at a guess) until now. If you haven't encountered it I'd guess you probably won't. The one machine that runs into this has to have that menu cleared about twice a week, so when it's bad it's really bad.

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November 17, 2011, 04:28:23 PM
Quote from: DigitalCrapShoveler on November 16, 2011, 01:25:47 PMI disabled Bridge out of the box... no need for it. Maybe that's why I have not seen this problem. Good tip, though.
Same here - never experienced that particular issue.
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