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I got a quick job.. literally this should take me 4hours. And if I can get it done by tomorrow morning I get $1500 if not then I get my asking price on the job of $450. (they are willing to pay more due to the urgency)

Well.. Photoshop refuses to work!!!! Every time I open it, everything seems to work fine then when I select the type tool the whole thing crashes (including OS X). I am trying to download a "legal" copy onto my PC right now due to the urgency and money at hand.. But it is seriously downloading at 0.07kb/s average!

This is a terrible day going into an even worse night.

Might I add I was almost done until I was trying to make the banner for the webpage in photoshop then when it crashed I lost the page apparently (due to having to reboot OS X) I never thought about saving! WHAT IS WRONG WITH TODAY??

fuck.

I know the problem!!!!
You have a corrupted font! ALL you have to do is copy ALL of your fonts OUT of your fonts folder, delete them all, then copy them all back in (this re-installs them) and that fixes it - really hope you get this in time!

Ok so I got my computer back up and running. Had to do the "archive and preserve" install from the boot cd. Now I can get back to my desktop.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix my system's sluggishness? It literally takes up to a minute to load up finder and have it display the contents in the view window.

Click the apple menu hesitates before it opens.. just really slow stuff going on.

Now you have firefox that INSISTS on crashing moments after opening it, I deleted it and reinstalled it with no fix



Oh and thank you John for the photoshop help!!!

and i removed all the fonts and reinstalled them and photoshop still crashes when I use the type tool

Doh I was so confident too! Maybe try a corrupt font scanner program just in case though!

how can i do that?

figured out how in font book but problem is... font book keeps crashing now!!!

well i backed up and reinstalled my system, it is running great now so that removes the idea of a possible dying harddrive.
but now i have this fear struck in me with installing new fonts

is there a way to check a font before you install it?

I think there are various bits of software you can download, but I don't have enough experience with em to recommend one to you! sorry mate - to be fair though it shouldn't be too much of a problem, it's only happened to me a couple of times.