Photoshop CS2 won’t launch

BK
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Brian_Kingman
Jan 6, 2007
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Hi,
I’m using Photoshop CS2 V 9.0.2 on a G5 Mac Dual 1.8.
I recently bought a new hard drive and really haven’t used the program much since re-installing everything. I did successfully launch the program when I first installed it onto this drive. now, a few weeks later The program won’t open. I get the exclamation point in the yellow triangle alert that says: "the application Photoshop quit unexpectedly." has anyone encountered this before?
thank you for the help.
-BK
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Ram
Jan 6, 2007
I still advocate Repairing Permissions before AND after any system update or upgrade, as well as before AND after installing any software that requires an installer that asks for your password.

I have seen software installations go sour because the installer did not find everything as and where it should be.

I have also seen software installations go bad because the installer did not clean up after itself properly and did not leave everything as and where it should be.

This is just my own personal opinion and practice based on my own observations. Others may disagree and that’s OK. I can only base my routines and my advice to others on my own experience and conclusion. I don’t pretend to know why others believe otherwise.

Repairing Permissions after the fact (i. e. not immediately before and after an install) may NOT help.

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Additionally, if your machine does not run 24/7 so that it runs the daily, weekly and monthly Cron Scripts in the middle of the night as intended by Apple, run Cocktail (shareware) as well.

Cron Scripts are maintenance routines designed by Apple to run on a daily, weekly and monthly basis in the middle of the night.

If you don’t run them, you WILL run into trouble, sooner rather than later.

Here’s an excerpt from the Apple tech doc <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107388>

Mac OS X performs background maintenance tasks at certain times if the computer is not in sleep mode. If your computer is shut down or in sleep at the designated times, the maintenance does not occur. In that case, you may want or need to run these manually.
Mac OS X periodically runs background tasks that, in part, remove system files that are no longer needed. This includes purging older information from log files or deleting certain temporary items. These tasks do not run if the computer is shut down or in sleep mode. If the tasks do not run, it is possible that certain log files (such as system.log) may become very large.
Also, from: <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106978>

The disk activity generated by find is a normal part of file system maintenance, used for tasks such as removing invisible temporary files that are used by the system. It is scheduled to occur early in the morning at 03:15 everyday, 04:30 on Saturdays, and 05:30 on the first day of each month.
R
Ram
Jan 6, 2007
Also, try making a new user account on your Mac and logging in as a new user. If Photoshop works then, it means you have software corruption on your regular account and an "Install and Archive" of the OS is in order.

Details about your setup would help.
BK
Brian_Kingman
Jan 7, 2007
Thanks for the help Ramon. I tried repairing permissions, it didn’t work. There was some conflict which wouldn’t even let photoshop start up. Image ready was fine and so was Bridge. I resorted to backing up and wiping the drive / reinstalling OSX. I installed Photoshop first thing after OSX was up and running and up to date and Photoshop started up OK. I’m slowly adding programs back and checking photoshop after each installation. So far so good. If I find the culprit I’ll report back.
Thank you,
-BK

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