I've discovered that Preview crashes when opening certain Photoshop documents - it appears to be totally random (which PSDs will cause a crash) because the PSDs in question have come from Photoshop on three different machines (two WinXP machines, one iMac) and are of varying sizes, content, etc. In any case, since Preview chokes on these files, it in turn means that QuickView chokes on them, as does CoverFlow. And when either of those crashes, they take Finder with them. So if I make the mistake of enabling CoverFlow in folders containing PSD documents, I'm guaranteed a Finder crash every time. Fun!! 😀
Anyway I have zipped up one of the documents for you guys to try out for yourselves. You can download it here. To make your shiny new Leopard Finder crash, simply press spacebar with this PSD selected to view it in QuickView. Once Finder re-launches (on my iMac it's pretty much instantaneous) try opening the file in Photoshop and you'll see that it's just a simple, single-layered image. Nothing fancy at all.
The point of all this is: be careful using CoverFlow in folders containing PSDs! If Finder crashes, you'll know why 😉
Anyway I have zipped up one of the documents for you guys to try out for yourselves. You can download it here. To make your shiny new Leopard Finder crash, simply press spacebar with this PSD selected to view it in QuickView. Once Finder re-launches (on my iMac it's pretty much instantaneous) try opening the file in Photoshop and you'll see that it's just a simple, single-layered image. Nothing fancy at all.
The point of all this is: be careful using CoverFlow in folders containing PSDs! If Finder crashes, you'll know why 😉
