Background Eraser going bezerk

If I’m working on a project and am in background eraser mode, when I go to start using it, it promptly starts erasing all over the picture-looks like anywhere I would have crossed the picture in the last ? minutes... takes several seconds till it does all this and I can use Control Z to undo!! What is wrong??

I have the same problem on both my desktop ( windows 7 pro ) and laptop ( windows 8.2 ). My Desktop also has PS CC that works fine. I have never had issues with photoshop cs5, cs6 or CC but CC2014 is just a mess. I just don't use it on my desktop but was not given the option to install PS CC instead on my laptop.

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Why might the Background Eraser tool have stopped working?
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Message was edited by: TomBrooklyn for grammer and content--mainly clarity

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Background eraser error in Photoshop on Mac Mini [was:jim]

i am running a mac mini untill yesterday everything was good, now i get a background eraser error.

Jim,
What version of Ps are you running, and what is the OS version on the Mac-mini?
What is the exact text of the error message?
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Hunt
PS - with a bit more information, a MOD will likely Edit the title of your post, for clarity, and to help other find the post, if they have the same issue.

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Hello -- I am having an issue with my PS6 and the background eraser not working after about a few click of use, popping a "Could not use the background eraser because of a program error". I thought it would be helpful to try and remove my preferecence file and start PS6 again to see if there was something wronf witht he preference file, but even with a fresh file the error popped.
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Hi Travo, it sounds like you are not in Photoshop, but Illustrator!
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However, I imagine you are seeing this instead:
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Background eraser Error

Message - background eraser has stopped working because of a program error

Posted this in the other string as well. Same issue for me:
I have the same error when I try to use the background eraser tool in Photoshop. I just noticed it today. Restarted program, MAC. Tried in both RGB and CMYK, same message. I can see it begin to remove at the very beginning of clicking, then the error message:
"Could not use the background eraser because of a program error."
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Hmmmmm.
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NOTE EDIT: I was able to reset my Photoshop preferences and it seemed to fix the issue. Command/Option/Shift upon starting Photoshop.
Message was edited by: tgraner

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I don’t follow.
If you try to hide the background just paint on the new Layer, if you want to actually erase parts of the Background Layer convert it to a regular Layer (Layer > New > Layer from Background or just double-click it).

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