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Installed 10.6.3 and now Photoshop CS3 won't open

Ever since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, Photoshop CS3 hasn't been the same. Whether it is the OS or the new drivers to manage my printer and my scanner, I don't know.

Today, I had been working on Photoshop all day and at some point the computer got slow and it told me it had a software update. I decided to save everything I was doing, quit Photoshop and install Mac OS 10.6.3 hoping it was the answer to all the glitches.

Instead, Photoshop won't open at all anymore. I have restarted, shut down, repaired permissions, reinstalled the program, updated everything and it still won't open. It's the only program affected from my design suite as far as I can tell, but it's also the one I use the most!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

iMac intel late 2007, 10.6.3

Posted on Mar 29, 2010 10:13 PM

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Mar 30, 2010 4:12 AM in response to macjack

There's a thread on Adobe's forums about it, and the more time passes the more people are reporting the issue. I've dusted off my old G4 for todays workload, but it doesn't seem like an isolated problem.

I'll hold out until the end of the week to see if a fix is forthcoming, otherwise I'll be contacting Adobe.

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Mar 30, 2010 5:47 AM in response to polarcoco

Also happened here with all of my CS3 apps on my Mac Pro. Also, Quark XPress v8.16 exhibited the same crash at startup. *_Not Good_*! Lightroom loaded properly with no issues. Haven't had a chance to run through every app yet, but as a Graphic Designer, those are the ones I need to work. An interesting tidbit was that this did NOT occur on the installs of CS3 and Quark XPress on my MacBook, which also was updated to 10.6.3. Just the Mac Pro.

Re-installed CS3 suite and Quark XPress to no avail. Also cleaned font caches.

I "fixed" this by re-installing Snow Leopard from the DVD which brought me back to 10.6, which just installs over itself, keeping all your apps and settings intact. I then downloaded the older 10.6.2 Combo Update, and installed that, which brought me back to the point I was at prior to 10.6.3. I also ran a software update after the 10.6.2 update, and installed all the found updates EXCEPT for the 10.6.3 update it found.

No problems as of yet...
I'll report back if any do arise.

My gut feeling is that this is some sort of color profile or font issue.

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Installed 10.6.3 and now Photoshop CS3 won't open

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