lately when ive been using photoshop6, ive been crashing alot when i try to save a file, or when im using any command, the crashes are sporatic, ive alotted alot of memory to the program...thats not it..... the other thing is..when i put these files on disc and taken them to kinkos to print, when i try to open up the files this is what the message says "the file is damaged due to a disc error, possible causes are defective disc drive, defective disc drive cable or incorrect peripheral cable termination. SOme pixels in the document may be invalid. Open anyways?" when i open it, the image is screwed up in some areas.. ....once i open the file there is somthing wrong with it visually and it prints out that way....does anyone know what this may be?

Without knowing a specific problem, I would hazard a guess your preferences might be corrupt. Throw 'em out and try again. p

you may try also buying/borrowing a disk repair utility like DiskWarrior. i edit and do photoshop, and use that occasionally. it consistently can repair directory damage that Disk First Aid can't even see. but try trashing the prefs first, just make sure you have the serial number to re enter.

Your disk drive may indeed be faulty, you know. You say the machine crashes, and data is being corrupted on file saves. These things can happen when the disk drive is flaking out intermittenly and can't read or write data (The OS and APPS rely on DATA just as much as your saved Pshop files). Worth looking into.

what ive done is saved a file onto zip and then reopened it from the zip disc, and ive noticed that 4 out of 6 zip discs give me that error message when i try to open the file...could it be the zip discs? also, i already dumped preferences and reinstalled the program again and it still occurs.

Well, try saving to the hard disk. If the problem goes away, I'd say the Zip drive or disks might be at fault. p

if the zip discs or drive is at fault..then what do i do?