If you wish, just click play on the video and watch me walk you through how to save your frozen project or simply follow these instructions:
Instructions
- Open the app Activity Monitor (in your applications)
- Find and remember the PID number of the program you’re running
- Open the Terminal app (in your applications) and enter: kill -SEGV –INSERT PID NUMBER and hit <Return>
Here is an example:
kill -SEGV –3806
SUMMARY
As a video editor myself, I have lost many hours of work after my editing software (Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Pro, etc) has locked up with the spinning wheel of death. I recently learned how to save a project after it has crashed even with the spinning wheel of death. Not only that, the project stayed up and allowed me to continue editing. My jaw dropped!
I have learned that sometimes your project may close after saving and sometimes it may stay open but either way your work is saved. I haven’t tested this on anything but Adobe Premiere yet but I will try this ANYTIME an app crashes on my mac from now on. Try it the next time your mac freezes up on Adobe or any app and share your experience.
Please feel free to share this priceless information with your friends. I know I wish someone had shared this with me years ago. Enjoy and share your results with me.
Music licensed “Hey Momma” by Taylor Coggins
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Adobe Premiere Pro 2019 keeps crashing. Please fix it. I keep losing the work i have just done and its taking me ages to complete a project
Hi, what do you do when you cannot access activity monitor because everything is frozen
Well 2020 it doesn’t work it just force quit without any saving
THANK YOU! A blank white Adobe Screen often pops up on my MAC when I power on. Sometimes I get the spinning rainbow. Sometimes the rainbow stops and I am stuck with a frozen white Adobe window that won’t allow me to even close the app. I don’t have Adobe set as the default. Sometimes rebooting helps or just shutting down. This worked so far:)
WOW THANK YOU!!! LIFE SAVOR!
Thank You Adam!
Have you ever tried Final Cut Pro X?
I only tried when it first came out. I use premiere pro.