Photoshop CS6 UNWORKABLE on Mavericks!

Thanks, but that seems to work for Illustrator but not for Photoshop

I have not encountered the problem you describe with Photoshop CS 6, but I do not have the whole Creative Suite. (I do not know if you are using CS or the Creative Cloud version.)

There is a possibility that you have some corrupt preference files probably are not replaced when performing a reinstallation. As the ~/Library folder is invisible in both Mountain Lion and Mavericks, you will need to make it visible. Macworld has a useful article showing how to do so. If you are not experience in digging around in the Library, don't just start deleting or moving things around that you are not sure of...it can cause problems. There is a file named "com.adobe.Photoshop.plist" which is at ~/Library > com.adobe.Photoshop.plist Move it to some other location, the Desktop, for example, and try to launch Photoshop. This preference (plist) file will self regenerate. I do not recall whether you will have to re-enter your License number when doing so or not so look that up in advance. (If you don't have it, but registered your product with Adobe, you can recover this information by logging in to your account on their web site.)

If that fails to resolve the matter, after closing Photoshop, you can move the new plist file to the trash and replace it with the older on that you put on the Desktop.

If that does not work, you may want to post on the Adobe Forums as there may be something else going on.

Good Luck!

LVDG wrote:

Thanks, but that seems to work for Illustrator but not for Photoshop

Reinstall your licenced copy of Adobe CS6

Cheers

Pete

Thanks Richard,

I work with the CC version though

Thanks for the Adobe Forums tip

I guess I can remove the PS CS6 CC version and install it again

thanks

FWIW, my PS CS6 is working just fine.

So?

It's a data point, frequently valuable when troubleshooting. Of course, you're welcome to ignore it.

LVDG,

Sometimes Adobe products simply don't like "changes in their cages" and may require entering the licensing data if you can get to that point. If not, I would suggest going ahead and reinstalling it from scratch. Remember that simply trashing the application does not get arid of everything. There is the Preference file I mentioned earlier and a few others. Sometimes tracking them down can be a bit of a nuisance. I use an application called AppZapper which does a pretty good job of tracking down all the assorted files associated with an application so that you really do get a fresh start on the new installation. There are a number of other similar applicatons, but that happens to be the one I use.

Please post back and let us know how things work out.

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Photoshop>Preferences>Performance Uncheck"Use Graphics Processor"
Close Photoshop

Reopen it and go back to the Preferences>Performance

Recheck "Use Graphics Processor"

Trash HardDrive> User> Library> Preferences>Adobe PhotoshopCS6 Settings folder.

Trash HardDrive> User> Library> Preferences>com.adobe.Photoshop.plistfile.

I have been having a number of issues using Photoshop with Mavericks.

I have a brand new Mac Mini server and the latest Adobe CC. I have not been able to get Photoshop to recognize folders and open files using the file_ Open feature in Photoshop. I also can not save files to any folder.

I have a TON of memory and extra graphics cards.

Mavericks has made my computer so so slow. Everything takes way too long to open. I am so sorry I updated. It is a nightmare.

SOLVED!!!!

I had same issues since update, spent lots of time on phone with Adobe, no luck, they had no idea how to help me. What was strange is that not everyone in our agency had that problem, so after doing some digging we narrowed the issue to Adobe Drive 4. After uninstalling adobe drive, everything went back to normal, as smooth as before the update. Before we tried reinstalling CS6 as well as CC - no luck.

Hope this helps others in same situation.

Adobe made a statement, that they have tested it very well, i guess none of the test scenarios had adobe drive included in it.

BTW. peeps who had adobe drive 5 installed didn't experience any issues.

Good luck!

Tom

Use the Time Machine backup you made before installing Mavericks to take your system back to its former state.

Cheers

Pete

My iTurtle is an iMac again! It's finally working and fast.

An upgrade to Mavericks can cause problems but not necessarily.

In my case:

I narrowed down the problem. First I had to check whether it was Photoshop causing the problems or Mavericks. It was Ps.

What I did, not in particular order.

Resetting NVRAM / PRAM.

Resetting the SMC (System Management Controller).

Reinstalled Creative Cloud, reinstalled PS CC both twice.

Disk Utility’s Repair Disk Permissions.

Removed all the plugins and folders and reinstalled them all twice.

Updated Java.

Uninstalled Adobe driver 4, installed Adobe driver 5, uninstalled 5 again.

Got the latest updates for several plug-ins for PS like NIK,Topaz etc.

In Ps Preferences-Performance uncheck The Graphic Accelerator/performance, quit Ps, reboot, start Ps check The Graphic Accelerator/performance again.
This seemed the final solution.

I ran this issue too and found it to be caused by Adobe Drive 4. I'd tried the graphics accelerator settings, but that had no effect. I upgraded Drive 4 to 5 and it's all good again. This problem was affecting both PS CS6 and CC on the same machine and InDesign. Hope that helps someone.