Adobe CS3 Issues and a fix!
Sunday, May 6th, 2007I love error messages that mention how to fix an issue, however its not so great when what they suggest doesn’t actually solve the problem your having!
Over the last week or so i have had a hell of a time getting the new version of Adobe CS3 installed on my OS X 10.4.9 machine.
I originally had the Photoshop 10 beta installed, and although i uninstalled it before installing the Final version, as well as running the cs3clean script from Adobe i was unable to get the apps to run after installation.
The Installer would run and finish correctly. I would then go to run one of the newly installed apps and it would pop up a message saying “Licensing for this product has stopped working“.
Well i searched and searched on the internet and had no luck in finding how to fix this.
After a week of trying i eventually worked out a solution for this issue after installing and uninstalling CS3 maybe 25 times. (boy o boy is that installer slow.)
You need to delete the folder found here “/Library/Preferences/FLEXnet Publisher”.
After that all the apps should open correctly.
I cant believe how simple it was in the end, and i cant believe that Adobe couldn’t work this out.
Post your success and failure stores in the comments below!
-Richard