“Shit the beach-ball!” I exclaimed. “I ‘got it too”, I heard from across the studio.

We might as well brew a pot of coffee – we’ll be here a while.

Adobe has made great strides in recent years to eliminate application crashes in their Mac suite of applications. Remember running CS/CS2 in Rosetta and Illustrator simply shutting off when you used the pathfinder – and viola you’re back at the desktop and out an hour of work because you forgot to Apple-S? Ya well Adobe on Macs is about where it was on PCs under CS1 – your machine will think really hard for a really long time – you may lose fidelity in your OS GUI – meaning some panels will go white and not refresh until Adobe is done thinking – but 99 times out of 100, if you wait long enough, the application will recover.

Back to the studio…