Comments on: Curing Illustrator Ills: Resetting Preferences

by: john anthony

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:40:38 +0000

people…once a file is corrupt…forget it….being in AD/Design game i found that my butt was against the wall tooooooooooo many times with the corruption factor in Illustrator CS2….the BEST THING is to
always save the same file that you are working in Illustrator to save it as a PDF file and store it in the same place you store the original file…therefore, you can always open the PDF again in illustrator again and save as AI or eps file…now you just saved your butt but having your file to work on agiain…believe me this is the only cure!!!!

by: Dominik

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 02:25:32 +0000

Resetting the preferences did not help in my case. Another solution when copy/paste and opening files slows down, is to change what printer is set as default. If it is a network printer that is not available, this is going to cause problems.

by: Lennie

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:01:10 +0000

I have faced too many a times when; as I was saving a file, it seems as if it is WAS saving the file; but later the application seems to be ‘Not Responding’. And when I tried to open the last save version of that particular file; the file is ‘damaged and could not be repaired.’

Is there any way to fix the file and to prevent this from happening?

by: Joe

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:34:42 +0000

A quicker way to get back to work is once you’ve reset all your custom preferences (including any third party extension serial numbers) is to save a copy of the clean preference file somewhere else on your hard drive or on a CD. Then when Illy goes nuts, simply close Illy, copy/paste a clean copy of your custom prefs over the old prefs, and restart illy. MUCH faster.