Broderbund Printmaster for Mac

I bought and installed Print Shop for Mac and it runs super slow and sometimes freezes. Is there another Mac program I can use or greeting cards? Or is there something I can do to fix my problem with broderbund?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Feb 15, 2010 9:57 AM

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Feb 25, 2010 9:08 AM in response to pleeme

Your title refers to Printmaster, you say you installed Print Shop. Which is it? Printmaster 2 is indeed a Broderbund program but I didn't even know Broderbund had re-joined the Mac world until I went searching just now. One of the things I find a bit interesting about the technical specs of the program is that it requires a recent Java update. This might explain the slowness of the program. PrintShop 2 is one of several Broderbund titles that MacKiev bought the Macintosh rights to. While PS 2 has much of the same artwork as the Windows versions of PrintShop, it is completely unrelated to both Broderbund and the Windows versions.
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Feb 25, 2010 9:27 AM in response to pleeme

Changing the 32 bit status, or Rosetta status of an application sometimes affects the speed it runs:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2176255&tstart=0

Making sure the hard disk isn't too full also may help*:

http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html

If you migrated from a PowerPC Mac before using the Migration Assistant, this may yield a slower system. Backing up at least twice, as described here*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html

and migrating using this tip after an erase and install:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350&tstart=0

can sometimes fix the slowness and freezing. Sometimes simply repairing the permissions or directory can fix matters*:

http://www.macmaps.com/directoryfaq.html

Sometimes you have to run the hardware test to determine if some built-in hardware is causing slowness:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303081

- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.
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Feb 28, 2010 8:29 AM in response to a brody

I am sorry, this OLD brain sometimes gets confused. I have Print shop for Mc version 1. I want to uninstall it ans start over again, but there is no "un-install" on the program. can i just send it to the trash? or? is there another way.
thanks
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Feb 28, 2010 9:42 AM in response to pleeme

Yes, drag it to the trash and empty. In your Preferences folder (in your library) you'll find a preference file (com.mackiev.printshop.pref) is what it will probably be named. I don't think there's anything in the Application Support folder (also in your Library) but I could be wrong.
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