CS2 Crashes on Launch After Activation

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The_Coyote
Dec 30, 2008
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Mac OSX 10.5
1GB RAM
PREintel iMac G5

I did a complete uninstall manually. Although it required activation that was successful it crashes 8 to 10 seconds after all the toolbars show up.

Install is an upgrade download that requires me to input the ser.# of my Photoshop 6, which I cannot install in OSX. Installation was successful using the serial number of Photoshop 6.

Thanks,
Coyote
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Ram
Dec 30, 2008
Consider reverting to Tiger 10.4.11.
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The_Coyote
Dec 30, 2008
Reverting to Tiger would eliminate many upgrades and improvements I’ve made.

I should probably upgrade Photoshop, but I can’t afford it and it was working just fine.

I got a complete install, registration, and authentification. It loads up, I can look at the tool bars and the mouse goes to a pointer for a few seconds, then the color wheel spins and it crashes, without touching or moving anything.

I’m looking into plugins and twains causing the problem.
WZ
Wade_Zimmerman
Dec 30, 2008
Did you ever try to simply trash the Adobe Photoshop Settings Folder and the com.adobe.Photoshop.plist file from your users preferences and repair your permissions?
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The_Coyote
Dec 30, 2008
In the other post-thread about my "CS2 Crashes when Launched" someone sent me a link to a blog with a copy of the Adobe instructions on manually uninstalling CS2.

I followed those instructions and that did cure my Adobe Acrobat problem.

PROBLEM SOLVED: I had installed a Lexmark printer a week ago and the Lexmark driver was the problem. I found it in the Library/Image Capture/TWAIN Data Sources/**lexmark driver

Just to verify I put it back into the folder from the trash and photoshop crashed again.

CLUE: The tool bars and menu fully loaded up. It took 3 to 11 seconds to crash each time.

Thanks for your help everyone!
Coyote

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Buko
Dec 31, 2008
CS2 is not supported under Leopard.

So if you want a stable CS2 run it in Tiger.

If you feel you must have Bells and Whistles then by all means keep using Leopard.

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