The Quick selection took is causing my Mac's Photoshop to freeze and has to be force quit?? Help

Photoshop was been working fine for just under a year and all the functions have worked as they should but all of a sudden every time i use the Select tool (Auto select tool) it just just freezes and the loading wheal come up (only a very small part of the picture selects before it freezes). I then have to fource quit out of photoshop, then i can open it up again and it will just do the same?  I need a quick fix as i am doing Photography for an A-level and i need photoshop for my exam. Can anyone help?

You should update your operating system to OSX 10.10.1 or better still the latest version 10.10.2
After updating the OS it’s also best to trash the prefs.
Quit PSE12 if its running.
Launch Finder and find the user Library by clicking the Go menu whilst holding down the Optn (alt) key (n.b. the library is hidden until you press the optn key) and inside the Library folder select the preferences folder. Then trash the following files:
com.adobe.PhotoshopElements.plist
Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 paths
Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 settings
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/pse-stops-responding-yosemite.html

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