File recovery after crash

Does numbers create a temporary file of what you are working on? It just crashed, and I hadn't saved in a while.

Not a temporary file that I know of. If you have selected the "create backup" option in the preferences dialog before you crashed, a backup file will be in the same folder as the original file.
If not, I hope you installed 10.5 and have time machine. I did and it saved me from a mistake I made just 2 hours later. Awesome!!!
Jason

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  • Photoshop CS6 64bit crashing with big psb files right after opening

    Hi everybody,
    I'm having big trouble since CS6 and I couldnt find andy help anywhere, thats why i have to ask here.
    Problem discription:
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    Stefan
    System infos:
    PS, latest version!
    win7 64bit, 24gb ram, i7 920
    single nvidia 260 gtx, used with different driver versions too
    my work hdd is an 1tb RAID 1, where i have scratch disc and my workfiles, plenty of space
    had this problem snce the begin, also without plugins
    working on dual screens (27" with 2560x1440 and the other one in 1200x1900)
    no other software running
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    Processor speed: 3300 MHz
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    Memory used by Photoshop: 94 %
    Image tile size: 128K
    Image cache levels: 4
    OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
    OpenGL Drawing Mode: Advanced
    OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
    OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.
    OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
    Video Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
    Video Card Renderer: GeForce GTX 260/PCI/SSE2
    Display: 2
    Display Bounds:=  top: 0, left: 2560, bottom: 1920, right: 3760
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    Video Card Number: 1
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    OpenCL Unavailable
    Driver Version: 8.17.12.7533
    Driver Date: 20110520000000.000000-000
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    Video Mode: 2560 x 1440 x 4294967296 colors
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    Video Card Memory: 896 MB
    Video Rect Texture Size: 8192
    Serial number: 92298643689928754717
    Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\
    Temporary file path: C:\Users\stef\AppData\Local\Temp\
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    I have issues with PS CS6 and much smaller program files (less than 100mbs) but your problems may have less to do with programming bugs, many though there be, in PS CS6, than basic computer/OS issues.
    Your files are so large (7gbs?) that you may be incurring problems with memory handling on your system due to hardware issues, OS issues or both.
    In the real world most motherboards cannot stably use more than 16gbs of memory. Try removing RAM down to 16gbs and see if that improves stability. Google that if you do not believe me. You will not lose any performance, any may actually gain stability, going to dual channel memory using two instead of three slots.
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