Illustrator never exits

[lavaspit]

After a hare days work I cant exit illustrator without the PC equivalent of a force quit or crash. Is this a memory allocation issue or...?

[Ovaltine]

Don't know, mine does that too sometimes, and the force quit command doesn't work either, it says the program is not responding. I am on PC.

[emucru]

That sometimes happens to me too. At the end of the day I shut down all my programs. I think for me its memory overload. So what I do now is Quit Illy and once that is closed, I quit everything else. Patience helps.

[PrintDriver]

Depending on what you were working on, Illy can take a hellacious long time to close. You could also try trashing your prefs and doing a seek and destroy for adobefnt.lst files...

[meadowyck]

I'm on a pc and when I'm in Illy I have the same thing happen from time to time. I have 3 GB of memory so I don't think it really is that but some glitch with program for pc as I don't have any problem when I'm on a mac.

[PrintDriver]

It depends on what you are working on and what is in your cache. Sometimes you have to wait as long as 2 or 3 minutes for it to close. I work with a lot of large files and this is irksome at the end of the day as it gives people time to buttonhole me at quitting time. And I'm on a Mac. On a Mac a preponderance of Adobefnt.lst files can make it take forever. I don't know if those appear on a PC but it is possible to accumulate 100s of them on a Mac if you don't clean em out once in a while (don't remove the Adobefnt.db files though).

[CatintheHat1]

I have this happen all the time if it just sits. If it's in constant use I don't seem to have the problem.

Try disconnected from the net before close down though. I find 99% of my Adobe problems is because they're always in my damned system nosing around and "verifying" my keycode.

[urstwile]

It depends on what you are working on and what is in your cache. Sometimes you have to wait as long as 2 or 3 minutes for it to close. I work with a lot of large files and this is irksome at the end of the day as it gives people time to buttonhole me at quitting time. And I'm on a Mac. On a Mac a preponderance of Adobefnt.lst files can make it take forever. I don't know if those appear on a PC but it is possible to accumulate 100s of them on a Mac if you don't clean em out once in a while (don't remove the Adobefnt.db files though).
I've found that most apps quit much more quickly if I use the Application Switcher to quit out of them. But yeah, every now and then, it takes a while.

[leelovesbikestoo]

try unchecking 'clipboard on quit' in preferences

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1085/1482062049_e93f2c9cf9.jpg?v=0

[Danger_Mouse]

try punching it in the face.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Jeez, DM... You're so violent! :p

[Danger_Mouse]

im just a great problem solver......oh crap I gotta go....someone else needs a punch in the face. sigh...so many punches, so little time.

[lavaspit]

try unchecking 'clipboard on quit' in preferences

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1085/1482062049_e93f2c9cf9.jpg?v=0

Will do