I tend to be quite a trusting person, and Apple is one company which i trust.  Well, after reading many reviews about Snow Leopard, and it’s speed and its size reduction I figured I would go out and get it.  It was considered to be that of a Windows service pack update, and nothing too special.  Well overall the OS works the same, and it IS faster on some things.  I also recovered nearly 15 gigs of hard drive space.    My CS3 collection seemed to be working smoother at first.

Then the errors starting happening…

I too am experiencing the crash while saving error in Photoshop and Illustrator.  Bridge and camera raw seems to be ok, and I haven’t played with Indesign enough to know of any problems

The problem seems to be more on the OS side than the software side.  I have had the same error with other programs when trying to save files.

As annoying as it is, the only thing we can do is wait for the engineers to fix the problem and release (hopefully soon in OS 10.6.2)

In the mean time, there are some things you can do to survive these crashes.

1) Save Now Save Often:  that is right, the one thing which is reportedly causing these crashes is the one thing you should do the most.  In fact, you should ALWAYS be practicing SNSO as a general principal.  What I have found is that “Save” is not causing any problems at all.  I managed to complete a large experimental project in illustrator (with thousands of strokes) just fine.    So save works, and works well,  so keep on saving.

2) be weary of “Save as:”  that is where the problem seems to be.  In the SAVE AS function.  For some strange reason Snow Leopard doesn’t seem to like having new files written on the disk, but it is OK with saving over files that are already there.  If you have a psd file that you want to save as a jpeg… then the save as may kick you out of Photoshop. 

3) Save before save as:  see #2

4) Create dummy files to work with:  Thats is what we are going to have to do for the time being.  Open up a new file in photoshop and save this empty files as a photoshop file.  Granted, it might kick out out of program 2 to 3 to 10 times, but once you get your dummy file saved, you should be able to overstep the save-as bug.  So what you can do is just copy the dummy file and use the copy for all your work, until the bugs are fixed.
(To save you the pain, I have a dummy file for you to use here)

5) Send prayers and wishes of good luck to the engineers, not complaints.  I am sure they get plenty of complaints… they know the problems.  In fact, Adobe already knows about the problem.  The best thing we can do is send these engineers the best of luck…