Photoshop locked in Leopard and unable to unlock

If your spotlight isn't working and you didn't disable it intentionally then you have more than just PS issues. Have you tried verifying the HD with disk utility so see if it requires any repairs? How did you upgrade to Leopard? You may be looking at an Archive and Install again for Leopard followed by a reinstallation of PS from the source disk.

I don't know if booting into a Tiger volume and running PS will tell you enough. If you're running the application that's on the Leopard volume you'll still have to have the support files on the Tiger volume. If PS does run it would only clear the application, not the support files. Francine may have a better understanding of that than I.

Personally, if I were you, I would clone everything to an external drive, then do an erase and install of Leopard. Do NOT use migration assistant when the install completes. Instead setup a new admin account (use the same short name as your Tiger installation), then install your Adobe applications. Setting up everything from scratch is not nearly as painful as trying to straighten out the subtle problems that are possible from an upgrade install. The fact that you are getting this error when trying to run Photoshop, and that Spotlight is not working, makes it sound to me like you have run into the by now notorious problems that can result from technical changes in the group set-up between Tiger and Leopard. By doing a clean install you will avoid this. Once you have done the installations of the system and the applications from scratch, you can copy your own data files back from the clone.

One thing to be aware of about booting from Tiger, and then Leopard, is that there appears to be an incompatiblity between the indexing of the two versions of Spotlight, so Spotlight will re-index every time you boot into the other system.
Francine


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I always clone my startup drive to another drive using the Restore function of Disk Utility, then keep it updated using Chronosync, so that only changed files are written. I've never cared for utilities like Backup--I want an exact, bootable, clone with all my files just exactly the same as they are on the startup drive. Even though I'm using Time Machine, which is indeed very handy, I don't depend on it: I've still got my clone. Anyway, take a look at Kappy's instructions for making a clone this way:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5524122&#5524122

It is a pretty straight forward process.
Francine


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Sorry, I've never had mounting issues so have never investigated the issue. However, if you do a search here in AD you will find many discussions of problems with mounting drives. Perhaps one of them will have the info you need.
Francine


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Thank you so much - worked like a charm. I've been trying to trash Photoshop Elements 2.0 for several months now and couldn't get past the locked icon thing.

Sandy

Photoshop has a badly named legal file (in Vietnamese, of all things) which sometimes gets "stuck" in the Trash. If this happens to you when you empty the Trash you can sometimes get rid of it by holding down the Option key when you empty the Trash. If that doesn't do it then you have to start from the install disk, go to Disk Utilities in the menu bar, and select Repair Disk. That will fix the bad name and you can then empty the Trash.
Francine


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