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It would also be helpful
to know the individual's tendencies towards usage of development
versions during their difficulties. A dev version would
certainly be a strong candidate for crashes and should never be
expected to perform properly in a production environment. On another note: I can look back fondly at all the times I lost work in Photo$hop. Frequent saves were usually my only saving grace. Except of course when PS would crash during the save. Then all was lost. Effort had to be put into version saving as a work-around. At the time, I really had nobody to blame but myself since Adobe clearly stated that saving across a network was not supported behavior. Back then, Apple's PowerPC's were the norm, 1gig drives were about as big as they came and the files we were working were 314res (8000) ppi for 8x10" LVT film-recorder output on transparency and negative films. External drives were sloooow, too small for the files we were working. We needed every bit of free scratch disk to work the files, so saving them locally was not an option. Even with the potential for crashes and corrupted scan lines, saving to the network was a risk we felt we had to take. The learning experience brought realizations that bad things happen that are not within our control. What we could control is how we responded to the situation, what we did to work around the potential for the issue to happen again, and the use of careful note taking so that proper bug reports could be submitted to Adobe when appropriate. After all, devs can't fix a problem they are not aware of. Much like complaining about a three month old pothole on your street. It's not like the transportation department has some magic fairy that automatically tells them when a pot hole appears! Step up, make a polite phone call and the work will get done. Have an issue? Report it Bug won't go away? work around it. Don't like the way something works? Find something else that does. Taking responsibility for my own stubbornness, lack of follow through and the results they create has removed more stress in my life than just about anything else. When I stopped blaming others for the pain in my life I could have done something about, my life change immensely towards the positive. IMO the OP is acting as if they are the victim of the developers and their code. When someone plays the role of the victim, they surrender the power to change their situation. It's OK to stand in the pile of poo you were reluctant to get out of, but please don't splash any on the rest of us. On 07/23/2012 11:15 AM, Akira Tanaka
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