Photoshop CS2 Crashing 10.6.2

Do you have CS1? On my system CS1 is more reliable than 2 or 3. I do not own 4.

You no doubt already know that Adobe does not "support" anything except CS4. However the Adobe user support forums can be very helpful. Those forums are like these, viz. users helping users. This is the Photoshop forum:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop/photoshop_macintosh

Have you checked any of your logs and repaired your permissions? It's usually a good idea to fill in what you have tried to do before posting.

This is really not complicated. Adobe has admitted - numerous announcements - that CS1, CS2 and CS3 are obsolete, incompatible with many of the newest Mac OS. Adobe will not even provide tech support for any version other than CS4.

The problem surfaced, if memory serves, with CS1 not being happy with OS 10.5. (or was it 10.4?, 10.3?)

The frustrating aspect is that any of these programs will sometimes work, even with the newer OS! And then, after everything has been fine for days something strange happens.

I have been a Mac and Photoshop user for almost 20 years. (I have owned every version of Photoshop since 2.0.) Adobe wants you to buy CS4. My "solution" is to have CS1, CS2 and CS3 installed on my Mac. When one version behaves badly, I try another one.

You could try that. Or you could buy CS4.

Go to System Preferences->Accounts and create a new user account with administrator rights. Log into the new account and see is Photoshop will run without crashing there. If so, the problem is limited to your regular account and there is actually hope you can get things going again. If it crashes in the new account then much more work, which may or may not be successful, would be involved.

Or you can simply buy Photoshop Elements 8, for less than 100 bucks and use it instead. Unless you absolutely need some real "graphics pro" features, such as CMYK, Elements may do everything you need. It does for me.
Francine


Francine
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Have you checked your crash log yet?
Open Console
Got to FILES/Sysyemlog/crashreporter.
This may help you solve your problem.
Also, turn off all non-Apple fonts you may have.
And any 3 party plugins you have.

I have Photoshop 8 and have had no problems.

Dauley wrote:
Any more adeas????

As has been mentioned, CS2 is incompatible with Snow Leopard and will not be updated by Adobe. It will not work. There are no more ideas left.

I'm using PS 8. (2003) I believe it is the first CS. It works fine.
Just because it is not supported does not mean that it will not work.
Having no idea, as an idea is just idealess whargabble.