Re: How can I recover from hang/loop in Preview?

2011-09-04 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hi Esther, This problem is now solved and Preview is again useable! Phew! Running the onyx verify start up disk function enabled the don't save button in Preview to work again. I imagine this onyx function does much the same thing as the checks made during boot up in safe mode. The problem wa

Re: How can I recover from hang/loop in Preview?

2011-09-02 Thread Esther
Hi Paul and Jon, Preview is supposed to do a number of image conversions. You open a file in one supported format, then you use the "Save as" option (Command-Shift-S) from the File menu. Under the dialog menu you can change the pop up menu button to the new format that you want. The problem i

Re: How can I recover from hang/loop in Preview?

2011-09-02 Thread Jon Cohn
There is a program called graphics converter that might help in your situation. Also, I believe that Quicktime is probably the underlying framework that preview uses for conversions. JOnathan On Sep 2, 2011, at 6:17 PM, Paul Hopewell wrote: > Hi Esther, > Many thanks for your reply. > > I

Re: How can I recover from hang/loop in Preview?

2011-09-02 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hi Esther, Many thanks for your reply. I was using Preview to convert a JPEG file to a PNG file. I created a duplicate of the JPEG file and then did a save of that duplicate after setting the file type to PNG. All this is on my normal Lion hard disk. The process had worked for several files b

Re: How can I recover from hang/loop in Preview?

2011-09-02 Thread Esther
Hi Paul, This one is a puzzler, but it sounds as though you might be using Preview to make changes in a graphics file using the Tools menu. Alternatively, could you be opening a file that is corrupted, or not really a supported file type? If the file is on an external volume that is not writa

How can I recover from hang/loop in Preview?

2011-09-02 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello, I am running Mac OS 10.7.1 and am stuck in a hang/loop in Preview. Whenever I try to exit Preview or close a Preview window I have a dialogue asking if I want to save the changes to file x. Whatever I choose (don't save, cancel, save) I cannot get out of this loop. I have to force quit