Application launch failure because of shared library error!!!!!

I'm not sure if folks in the "AppleScript" forum will be able to help much. You might get better results posting in a forum that deals more with third party apps like Photoshop. Maybe in Using Mac OS X Tiger.

I have been using photoshop for over a year now and I
went to open it up and I get this error, Application
Launch Failure, The application "Photoshop" could not
be launched because of a shared library error:
"/<application><CarbonLib><CFMPriv_CarbonSound>"
Then when I open up the console log it comes up with
error code -2820, which I cannot find anywhere.
Please help before I scream!

Error -2820 is from the Code Fragment Manager and means "A fragment's container was corrupt". So it sounds like "CFMPriv_CarbonSound" may have gotten corrupted in some way.

My machine doesn't seem to have anything called "CFMPriv_CarbonSound" on it (but I don't have Photoshop installed). So I suspect it's a library that comes with Photoshop or with a Photoshop plug-in.

You might try doing a "Repair Permissions" and/or a "Repair Disk" in Disk Utility to see if that helps. But, if you don't get any other suggestions the only other thing I can think of would be to try a clean install of Photoshop.

Steve

Please tell me what a
"clean install" of photoshop is.

A re-install of Photoshop may fix your problem and is probably worth trying first.

By "clean install" I meant try to remove everything related to Photoshop first and then re-install it. Occasionally if you reinstall over top of an existing "problematic" application the installer may leave the file(s) that are causing the problem behind and you'll end up with the same problem you had to begin with.

Steve

I get a very similar error when trying to open Illustrator CS. There is a problem finding AGMCarbonLib. The same program opens on my Desktop Mac Pro but on my MacBook Pro laptop I get this error every time.

I called Adobe who says they no longer support that version and I should look in their knowledgebase. But nothing comes up.

Photoshop and InDesign CS3 work fine, of course. All that I could find about a missing CarbonLib was that it is something that OS 9 needs and is built into OS X. But we have this problem.