SinisterNights
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.
  Jun 28 '07 by SinisterNights        15 Comments        Watch this
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
   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
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
SinisterNights on Jun 28 '07 at 10:52am
Like she does freelancing.
SinisterNights
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
   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
   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
   kaloyster on Jun 28 '07 at 12:06pm
You gots burned by ste7en! :)

Get CS3.
Kojima
   Kojima on Jun 28 '07 at 12:08pm
Ask your mom.
MrDomino
   MrDomino on Jun 28 '07 at 12:10pm
CorelDraw autosaves every 10 minutes. Saved my ass more than once.
Kojima
   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
   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
   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
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
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
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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