Can't finish previewing. Could not complete the requested operation.

I applied a pattern to a stroke by accident and received this error. I'm using v25.0.1 on a PC with 16 gb RAM and a dedicated graphics card.

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Evan Griffin commented · October 16, 2018 7:27 PM · Report

I've been having the same issue every since updating to v 23.0

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Kyle commented · October 16, 2018 1:59 AM · Report

It is still crashing. Still making the same error. CPU reboot hasn't helped. I'll see if clearing the preferences cache or something fixes it.

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Kyle commented · October 15, 2018 9:58 PM · Report

I'm working on macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
3.5 HGz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5
Mem 64 GB
Graphics AMD FirePro D500 3072 MB

Since updating this morning, Illustrator has consistently crashed. At a random point, it switches to outline mode, and then a dialog box opens and states, "Cannot finish previewing" –– and then every time I try to switch out of outline-mode, it fails, and brings up the same dialog box, and I have seconds before it crashes altogether.

I'm able to still save and close the file. But when I try to re-open it, it says it does not have enough memory and that I can't open the illustration. When I quit Illustrator, and re-open it, then it works. Then the outline mode issue occurs, and I have to restart again. I'll try a CPU reboot to see if that helps.

NOTE: This issue happens on Microsoft Windows as well

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Anonymous commented · March 29, 2018 7:08 AM · Report

Since a week ago, illustrator is sending the "can't finish previewing. Could not complete the requested operation" popup once per hour.

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