I have Illustrator 9 so I am really up a creek since I cannot get any help!!
Please help!!
Deborah
Sharon
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If you cannot delete .eps files from the Recycle Bin and Process Explorer does not show a handle for Explorer to the .eps files you can't delete from the Recycle bin, then go to C:\RECYCLER where you will find a single folder with a long numerical name. Delete this and it will empty your recycle bin. If you are worried about causing some Windows problem, as I was when I first tried this, then rename with "old" appended to the name. The folder is recreated as soon as you delete something else. Sounds like the prefs file doesn't it? steve
My work flow is hit an action key in photoshop which saves a file as "_philip.eps"
I then hit an action key in illustrator that opens a template file, and places the "_philip.eps" file onto the template and moves it to the correct position.
Every once in a while my "_philip" file will become read only, and I have to manually save files as something else, and then do file/place in illustrator. Frustrating when I can't have my actions do the scut work. But not quite frustrating enough to create new actions when it happens, as usually if I let the computer sleep overnight the problem will fix itself the next morning.
Yes, the aiicon.dll file is not installed and the one still on the drive from CS is disabled. You therefor do not have thumbnail view of Illustrator files in Explorer or the load file dialogue (except for the single one that appears after you select a file). This is a nuisance. To compensate a new program, Adobe Bridge, is supplied with the CS Suite (I don't know if it is supplied with Il CS2 alone). In addition to some organizational features and links to image sites, the Bridge provides very nice thumbnails that can be enlarged with a slider. I didn't like it at first, but am getting very fond of it and start it whenever I start Illustrator. steve
I still get the problem even after having renamed aiicon.dll though.
If you have shut off aiicon and your thumbnails are therefore not displaying, and you still have saving problems, then something else is wrong. You might try the Process Explorer solution to see if some other program is leaving handles on your files.
Search for aiicon.dll and rename to aiicon.dll.old (You should find it
in c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell). The downside is you will
lose thumbnails for Illustrator files in Windows Explorer. This file has
been removed from the current version of Illustrator (as has the
equivalent file in Photoshop) because these extensions to Windows
Explorer exposed a bug in Explorer that could prevent the deletion,
moving and saving of files and could even result in data loss.