Saving Workspaces in Illustrator CS5

I am currently running Mac OS 10.6.3 and Illustrator CS5. Every time I change the workspace and save it, it is nowhere to be found let alone loaded. Any solutions?

Saved workspace file can be found @ "<Curent User>/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings/en_US/Workspaces".
If you are not finding the saved workspace here and in Windows->Workspace menu of illustrator then try deleting preferences and then launch illustrator.

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Unfortunately I don't have permission to share the file but it is not a particular file. I'm getting the message randomly when I tried to save different files. I don't think is the file but we recently switch servers. We had a mac server now we have a pc server. Do you think that might be the problem? We work from the server and save everything in there. The other designers that I work with are getting similar messages.
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Sorry my mistake , I posted the location of the default worksapce but the user defined workpace are saved in the preferences.
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Hello,
First I'm not sure if this is the best spot to post this but I figure I would start here! I'm a rookie applescripter and can find code and piece it together to get things done. The issue I've recently come across has to do with saving files as a pdf with Illustrator CS5 and the file type and creator. In the code below, if the code is changed to save as pdf (no options), the type and creator end up being question marks. I changed it to save with options and backed the pdf version to Acrobat 5, then the type and creator were correct.
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Hey gregery,
Please let me know what Acrobat version are you using.
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1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to 3 times);
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< adobe < adobe photoshop CS6 < adobe photoshop CS6 settings – copy all files < go back to adobe < adobe photoshop CC < adobe photoshop CC settings – paste all files

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