Photoshop locked in Leopard and unable to unlock

All should need to do is bring up the GetInfo window then look in the General section at the top of the GetInfo window. At the bottom of the General section there should be a box in front of an entry for "Locked"--if the box is checked, click on it to uncheck it. That should do it. If not, there is a Terminal command you can use:

chflags nouchg /Applications/Adobe\ Photoshop\ Elements\ 3/Photoshop\ Elements\ 3.app

The above presumes Elements is in your regular Applications folder. You can copy and paste the above into the Terminal, then hit return.
Francine


Francine
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Sheree:

Check several files in your home folder to see if they are locked also. If it's just the image file in one folder download and run BatChmod on the folder with the settings shown here, putting your administrator login name, long or short, in the owner, staff or whatever is the current group in the group section. Then check the unlock box and the Apply ownership and privileges box. You can either type in the path to the folder or just drag the folder into that field.

See if that will keep those files unlocked.

Happy Holidays

No, you don't have to donate. Once you hit the Apply button you should be asked to enter your password in the next window. After doing so it will finish up and give you the donation plea. Give it a couple of tries.

BatCHmod may crash on your while closing. It does with me but works all the same.

BatChmod is very old, and my experience with it in Leopard and doing things recursively was not entirely successful. You could try this in Terminal--launch Terminal, then type this:

chflags

hit the spacebar, then type

-R

hit the spacebar and type

nouchg

hit the spacebar and then drag your copy of the Adobe Photoshop folder into the Terminal and drop it. The finished command should look something like this:

chflags -R nouchg /Applications/Adobe\ Photoshop\ CS

(I have CS1, I suppose yours would end with CS3). Then hit the Return key.
Francine


Francine
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Just EXACTLY what do you mean by "the applications itself is locked"? Do mean that when you do GetInfo on:

"/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS/Adobe Photoshop CS.app"

there is a check mark in the GetInfo panel? And a lock icon on the application? In other words, does it look like this:

http://homepage.mac.com/francines/.Public/locked.jpg

If it does, what happens when you click the box in front of locked? Actually, if the permissions show that you are the owner, and the group is staff, you shouldn't even have to click the padlock at the bottom. I can lock and unlock the application just by clicking on the box. If you can't, it makes me wonder just EXACTLY how you upgraded to Leopard. There can be a raft of very technical ownership/group problems, depending on what you did.
Francine


Francine
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Look inside the Photoshop application package for a file or folder that might be locked. If all else fails, delete the application and reinstall from the source disk.

Did you look in the User/Library/Application Support/Adobe file for any locked files/folders and in the User/Library/Adobe folder? There are a lot of files/folder in the User/Library/Preferences folder that are associated with Photoshop. Check there also. Also there's a folder titled ScriptingAdditions in the HD/Library folder that PS uses.

If you try a reinstall again delete those folders and files beforehand so you can start out fresh.