Does anyone know what the problem is? I have been reading on other message boards about CS4 programs crashing. I can't even get mine to open. Does anyone know a fix or something that can help?
Given that Snow Leopard has been publicly available for less than a week, I'm not surprised about the Adobe problems. - That will just most likely require updates from them.
As for Mail, I've got no real answer apart from run Software Update to see if a newer version of Mail is available.
My experience with CS3 and Snow Leopard is not as stellar as some are reporting. Although all the CS3 programs open and function Dreamweaver is the one that has showed the most performance problems. It response time to any action is slow. Simply scrolling a page is frustrating.
Going to the Adobe site to download an upgrade was not easy either. Both Safari and Firefox now have problems loading the Adobe site on my MacBook. I managed to get through the order process using Firefox but crashed when the Adobe download manager tried to load. I finally made it work by using my 2-year old Mac Mini (using Safari) that also has Snow Leopard on it. It read the Adobe site correctly and allowed the Adobe download manager to function.
It is true that Adobe's software seems to have decreased functionality, I have noticed that my CS3 applications take less time, simply because they rely less heavilyy on the computer's GPU.
I haven't noticed the problems with Dreamweaver, but that could just be because of my machine configuration.
The main blight against Adobe is that Photoshop CS4 has no 64-bit support and none is planned; I have no idea who's hair-brained decision it was in Adobe Labs but it is truly idiotic!
As for Adobe Downlaod Manager, well it is truly a menace to those who wish to actually get things done!
You aren't the only one who fears of this new Microsoft Clone, but given that (until CS4) adobe was showing better performance on Macs, it is strange at best. - I'd give them a few weeks/months to allow for them to realise that Apple actually has a new OS that advances on the previous, but I guess pigs will fly as well...
Day 2 with a MacBook 2.4Ghz/2GB, Snow Leopard and Indesign/Illustrator CS4. The only change I've noticed with the Adobe products is some general sluggishness. Buttons don't click as fast, layers don't change as fast, changes aren't rendered as fast as before. That feels more like a graphics driver issue than an Adobe issue. Oh, and Preview crashes every time I open a high-quality PDF generated in InDesign...but not from other sources. Could this also be a graphics driver issue?
*Bridge CS4* - There is nothing at all regarding Bridge CS4, the only updates available are for Bridge CS3
*Device Central CS4* - Nothing at all relating updates for this program exist.
*Dreamweaver CS4* - No CS4 updates.
*Illustrator CS4* - No CS4 updates.
There is an update for *Photoshop CS4* - It still appears that there will be no Mac support for 64-bit OS/Hardware. Photoshop still has not been given access to more than 3GB of RAM.
I would not recommend upgrading to Snow Leopard for anyone who requires CS4 functionality for business purposes. It may work properly for you, but it may not.
Wait until Adobe and Apple work it out. Hopefully won't take long, they clearly have people on it.
I'm finding, after researching over 5-6 days, that mac's with ATI cards are crashing CS4 on a consistent basis. People with other cards are rarely reporting any problems. I've opened many discussions with Adobe, and frankly they are blaming APPLE. And you guys are blaming Adobe.
We need to come to some sort of solution here. You're costing people time and money at this point.
Look into ATI cards/drivers + CS4 + Snow Leopard Crashing. Its a common thread I've found over and over this week.
Mine's a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 - and it's pretty crashy.
They're working on it to be sure. Blame is not helpful.
There's always unforeseen problems with a new O.S. If it's costing money, it's the price of being an early adopter. As it always was, as it always shall be.
The problem is Adobe is so paranoid about piracy that they've hobbled their software to the point of unsuitability. I've had to reinstall Adobe CS3 and 4 at least five times in the last three months. And when you add Acrobat.
The problem is that Adobe is not providing real quality control on their software, they've outsourced their tech support to god-knows-where, and they really have no customer care or support. I remember when Adobe was a good company. No more.
The Adobe updates for the programs that I listed have worked well!
I highly suggest all Mac users currently running Snow Leopard to use them, they include some new features, and include an overall stability increase.
Note: *Bridge CS4* has a strange bug, that when *Bridge CS4* is launched it still uses the *Bridge CS3* engine (in the *Program Window*), the only reference to *Bridge CS4* comes from the *Application Menu*; everything else refers to *Bridge CS3* - Odd?
*Device Central* has also begun working well, needed to reboot to make it launch (?) - Anyone got any ideas?
My guess is that *Bridge CS4* and *Device Central CS4* simply needed a reboot to begin running correctly. This is not all suprising given the level of system integration that these programs have.
Any interested users will find there is also an update for *Adobe Lightroom 2*, this update has similar stability improvements as the other CS4 updates.
*This is a list of the udate files:*
After Effects CS4:
AfterEffects-9.0.2-mul-AdobeUpdate.dmg
Contribute CS4:
contribute5_0_2_coreupdate.dmg
Encore CS4:
Encore-4.0.1-mul-AdobeUpdate.dmg
Fireworks CS4:
Fireworks10_0_3_AllAdobeUpdate.dmg
Flash CS4 (Should work for Professional and Standard.):
Flash10_0_2AdobeUpdate.dmg
I'm using an ATI Radeon HD 4870; InDesign CS4 crashes constantly and on many, many occasions (like exporting as jpg or something as trivial as that). (I've installed SL three times, the last one installing everything manually, all settings manually—no improvement (on this and couple other things). Going back to 10.5 now.) Just adding it for the ATI theory.
