What a great Christmas present! The AZ Republic reports that several people dressed as Santa Claus disabled photo radar cameras by gift wrapping them. Maybe they’ll visit the Prescott Valley cameras next year?
I just wasted much of my Saturday morning fighting with the brain damaged Adobe CS4 installer. Perhaps this post will save others some aggravation. I had Adobe Photoshop CS3 installed on my OS X 10.5 MacBook Pro. I got the CS4 update. Please be aware this is for Mac OS X only. I don’t know the traps the CS4 installer sets on windows.
- I did the install from the DVD. All seemed OK, except the installation process did not have the option to simply upgrade CS3 to CS4 – which is what I wanted to do. I did not want 2 versions of Photoshop on my system.
- After installing CS4, I tried it and it ran OK. I ran the updater and it downloaded some new files OK. Next step, remove CS3
- On the older CS3, the readme pdf file gave these instructions for uninstalling: DO NOT drag applications to the trash to uninstall them. To safely uninstall on Mac OS X, double-click the product installer in Applications\Utilities\Adobe Installers. Authenticate as an administrator, then select Remove Components and follow the on-screen instructions.
- I did the above. It took a long, long time but finished OK.
- Next, I ran Photoshop again and got this message:
adobe cs4 error
Here’s the message in text so that a search might reveal this post. “One or more files in the Adobe Application Support folder, necessary for running Photoshop, are missing. Please run the Photoshop installer re-install Photoshop.” Not good. I followed the instructions an reinstalled from the DVD.
- After reinstalling, I got the same message. Very NOT GOOD.
- A search on Adobe’s web site returned no useful information.
- A web search gave some hints: The error message is referring to directory /Library/Application Support/Adobe Note this is different from ~/Library
- There were over 17 thousand files in various folders inside /Library/Application Support/Adobe Uh Oh
- After taking a break to eat, I decided to use Apple’s Time Machine to restore /Library/Application Support/Adobe to what it was yesterday. There was 650 megabytes in 17,700 files. Time Machine did this easily. You are using Time Machine, aren’t you?
- Once this completed, I reinstalled CS4 Photoshop from the DVD. It worked!! No errors.
I hope this is of use to others.
but it’s raining and rained during the night. We’re a few degrees too this year for a white Christmas. There’s some snow on the mountains.
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