Illustrator malfunctioning, dealine appraoching

[Parse]

So I should proably try to troubelshoot this is the hardwre section but ill try here first: I have a pC workstation with duel Viewsonics. Today when using Illustrator CS2 some of the tools opened on the other screen. No big deal.. But now when I try to open or save, the dialogue box is nowhere to be seen. It slike its on an invisble thrid screen or somethign becasue I can here that sound it makes when you are clicking off the dialogue box. One big WTF.

[urstwile]

Try reloading the default workspace, perhaps?

[Parse]

I think this is a dual monitor issue.

[emucru]

Yep I had the same issue. Try moving Illustrator to your primary monitor.

I always had missing windows in Illustrator only. Alt+spce, Enter on Move, then hit the arrow keys a couple of times. Then move your mouse and resize your enormous dialogue box. Seems like a horrible workaround.

I recently upgraded to CS3 and I haven't seen any problems with the dialogues yet.

I have dual viewsonics too, but I don't think the issue is with the monitors.

[Parse]

Just out of curiosity, how well does Windows XP run CS3 iwth dual processing, if at all?


Yep I had the same issue. Try moving Illustrator to your primary monitor.

I always had missing windows in Illustrator only. Alt+spce, Enter on Move, then hit the arrow keys a couple of times. Then move your mouse and resize your enormous dialogue box. Seems like a horrible workaround.

I recently upgraded to CS3 and I haven't seen any problems with the dialogues yet.

I have dual viewsonics too, but I don't think the issue is with the monitors.

[emucru]

I don't notice too much difference between CS2 and CS3 as far as speed goes. It is recommended to have lots of ram. I have just under 3.25 gigs and a dual 3.4 Ghz Xeon processors. You can tell CS3 eats up the resources. I even have a 30 gig physical disk for scratch only.

I've only been using CS3 for 4 days now so my results may be premature.

[Parse]

I had a partition and a HUGE virtual memory issue. I dont even have the RAM to CLOSE Illustrator. Thansk for your help. Going to try your solution now and repost.

[Parse]

Holy Shitake! That worked. How the hell did the open dialog box get that big? Thank god this happened to you or I would have re-installed .ai and quit my job. Thanks a million man!

[emucru]

^^Happy to share my frustrating experiences!:)

[urstwile]

Yikes, where did you discover that workaround emucru?!

[emucru]

I kept hitting the keyboard with my face out of frustration and viola!

I can't remember, but if I find it I'll post it up here. Maybe on the Adobe forums.