OSX Crash on launch fixed

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Chris_Roehrig
Dec 16, 2003
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If you’ve upgraded to OSX 10.2 or 10.3 and Photoshop Elements 2.0 crashes when you try to launch it, try this (before you delete all your preferences):

Open System Preferences/Appearance, and change your "Turn of text smoothing for font sizes" setting to something different, and then reset it back to what you want.

TECHNICAL DETAILS:
It looks like old versions of OSX (10.0? 10.1?) used type String for AppleAntiAliasingThreshold (in ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist) but it’s now type Integer. If you set it back in 10.0 days, it probably still says String and that seems to crash Photoshop Elements.

— Chris

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Joe_Henry1000
Dec 16, 2003
Thanks for the tip Chris. I haven’t had any problems with PSE and 10.3 but you never know.

Joe
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Barbara_Brundage
Dec 17, 2003
Thanks, Chris. I knew that worked in jaguar, but this is the first time I’ve heard of it working with panther, too.

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