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SinisterNights aka Chase Mathey is a 16.77 year old boy, has been a member since January 31, 2007, has scored 2923 submissions, giving an average score of 2.11.

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Jun 28 '07 by SinisterNights

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Illustrator is being a $@#%*! Please any help...

Okay, it keeps getting stuck on Free Distort effect and it just sits there with the bar filled but won't finish. I click the stop button, but nothing happens... it is rediculous. Is there anyway to force-quit just an action like that within illustrator? By the way I am using CS2

Ste7en on Jun 28 '07 at 10:50am

You should actually pay for a legal copy of cs2 and I feel like you wouldn't have that problem. Yes, im jumping to conclusions, but you're 15 (and cs2 is still $400 for non college students) and 99% of illustrator program errors are caused by illegal copies not compiling the data properly due to piracy protection.

SinisterNights on Jun 28 '07 at 10:52am

no... I have a legal copy. My mom does graphic designing [it is her side job] and she lets me use illustrator.

SinisterNights on Jun 28 '07 at 10:52am

Like she does freelancing.

SinisterNights on Jun 28 '07 at 10:59am

Please can someone help me? I have gotten a lot done since my past save and it would be really bad if I had to force-quit illustrator.

Edword on Jun 28 '07 at 12:02pm

try and do a quick keys save and then force quit. It sounds to me like you will most likely lose the work, sorry happen to the best of us.

tracerbullet on Jun 28 '07 at 12:05pm

don't use the free distort effect. try selecting your design and using the free transform tool (E)

kaloyster on Jun 28 '07 at 12:06pm

You gots burned by ste7en! :)

Get CS3.

Kojima on Jun 28 '07 at 12:08pm

Ask your mom.

MrDomino on Jun 28 '07 at 12:10pm

CorelDraw autosaves every 10 minutes. Saved my ass more than once.

Kojima on Jun 28 '07 at 12:11pm

The logical thing to do since she is a graphic designer and she probably stays at home with you (you said she did freelancing).

Kojima on Jun 28 '07 at 12:13pm

Are you on Windows Vista? Vista likes to do the "Hey look, I'll do 99% of the work and freeze on you, bitch!" deal. It does that on many programs because of incompatibility.

kaloyster on Jun 28 '07 at 12:15pm

Vista is teh crap.

Rips off OSX features all the time.

Yeah I go with Kojima about asking your mom. After all, she's a freelance designer (or is she?).

canadianbeaver on Jun 28 '07 at 12:20pm

When you say you clicked the "stop button" , what is that? Try the apple and the period together. Also, continue to click the apple and the s button together, just in case the last gasp saves your work.

Another hopeful last straw is that your file may be in your rescued item in the trash when you reboot.

If you do have to relaunch, do not go to the files in your desktop folder, but to recent items under the file menu in AI.

Let us know what happens, OK?

canadianbeaver on Jun 28 '07 at 12:24pm

One more thing. Are you saving all your files on your desktop or on a disk like "C" Drive? If so, you may have reached to limit for those drives and it's time to take a dump over to your D Drive. There is not enough free space to continue working quickly and with all that info on your clipboard.

Ask me how I know this... especially with all my Tiff files for Threadless!

SinisterNights on Jun 28 '07 at 4:11pm

I fixed the problem. Thanks guys! It was from trying to apply something to too many layers.

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