Oleg's Blog

Damned Adobe! I've never expected to get something alike from the Adobe's flagman products! Here's the brief story:

I was working on some great illustration for two days. This night I thought it will be done. I had three temporary versions of that illustration (I making them while I'm working on something big enough) — each one is the snapshot of the 'critical' stages of my work. The picture was almost photorealistic because of the big amount of vector objects, layers, different bleeding modes, opacity, gradients etc. and, thus, the file weight was about 60 Mb (Adobe Illustrator had grew up to 650 Mb in my RAM).
And when I was attempted to create another layer, Illustrator just crashed.

— Well.. Ok!
I simply relaunched it. I haven't been disappointed at the moment because I knew that I saved the file just about a minute before the crash. I was surprised a bit when the file I worked on wasn't listed at the startup dialog into the 'Recent files' section. So I pressed Ctrl+O and pointed the Open File Dialog to the project's work directory. It was empty... I thought there was wrong file filter chosen by default at the dialog, but no! It was set to 'All supported formats'!

— Hm... :-| It's not funny at all!!! Where's my files? ]:->
No one of these three different versions has left... That's very weird! It's even mystical for me!!

— Well, Ok... I'm working with some PARTICULAR file... Something went wrong with the program? WHY DID IT DELETE ALL THE FILES IN THE FOLDER? Here's my versions:

• The file is too big for further operations?
  But I have 2 Gb of RAM on my workstation and Illustrator took only 650 of it — where's the problem? I've even closed all other applications! Even Opera =-O
  And what about other files in this folder? What was their fault?
• Some hardware memory bugs?
  I don't think so... I have 2x1 Gb of Kingston DDR RAM working in dual channel mode.
  And what about other files, again? They were not in the RAM at all!
• There was not enough HDD space?
  First one — for what?? I have enough free RAM to operate in, and the second — I have MORE than enough free disk space!
  Khe-khe... And what about files that are ALREADY stored?
• Maybe "Morphine" I was listened to?
  Yeah! That's the only eplanation to what have happened this night!.. or
• Some *VERY* stupid software bug made by Adobe
  Crash? Okay — go to hell! *BUT* leave the work files alone!!! Especially the one you haven't worked with during the crash...

I tried to recover the files on that logical partition but all vain
I think the problem is in myself too... I've forgot about the KISS-principle [Keep It Simple, Stupid] and now I'm down in the dump...