Adobe CS2 PROBLEMS!!!!

I have pin pointed it down to specifically when I work with Photoshop and Illustrator open (because I’m taking items back and forth....) If I’m in Photoshop, it will kick me out of Illustrator! If I’m in Illustrator, it will kick me out of Photoshop with a big error message. PLUS it will lose all of the work I had just done on the Photoshop/Illustrator file that I had been working on!
My Mac Pro is less than 4 months old....
Please help before I throw it out the window!!!!

Old territory. Back before CS3 when everyone was forced to use CS2 and run under Rosetta, those two apps are real heck of a bear. And you need 4-6GB RAM.
Upgrade to CS3 which is Universal Binary. Some people held off buying Mac Pro waiting on Adobe. There are a couple glitches with Leopard, but nothing like what you have to deal with.
If you look, there are some plug-ins that need to be avoided as well.
Surprised anyone was still using CS2. Use the search button for late 2006 threads.

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Leopard and Adobe Photoshop CS2 problems...

I've been reading the posts about Leopard and CS2 problems and have to say that I'm confused. A great many of you have had issues from the very beginning as soon as you upgraded to Leopard. I did not. I use a VERY basic set-up without third party plugins and suspect that to be why I had no problems. At least until now... I looked back through my documents to be sure, and my Photoshop was working beautifully through the first week of January. Somewhere between then and now there had to be an update from Apple that broke Photoshop. I haven't changed any settings since it last worked, and there certainly haven't been any updates from the greedy buggers over at Adobe because they don't support CS2 anymore apparently. What could Apple have updated that might have accidently corrupted my Photoshop?? I don't really feel it could be anything else, but who knows... Does anyone have any ideas? I would hate to have to downgrade to OS 10.4 just to use my Photoshop and I certainly can't afford to shell out the extra $$ for CS3.
I appreciate any light you guys can shed on the topic...
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Actually the 10.5.2 update does seem to have improved things for me with Photoshop CS1. I can now actually type entries into the little boxes for things like crop and brush sizes. The File Browser is still prone to crashing the application though, and there is still some weirdness with opening files by a drag and drop onto the app icon in the Dock. But nothing got worse, and several annoyances disappeared.
One thing to try is to create a brand new admin test user, with no additions (that includes not adding fonts), log into the new account and see if Photoshop will work there.
And speaking of fonts, do you have Linotype's Font Explorer installed? If so, did you get the new updater for it? Some people who use Font Explorer were having a lot of problems after the 10.5.2 update, including Photoshop failure to launch, that were fixed with the Font Explorer update.
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Hey, i've recently bought my first Mac, a white 2.0 Macbook. So far i'm loving it! but i can't install correctly Adobe CS2. After the install is finished (apparently OK) when I open Photoshop it tells me that there are some missing files and that i have to reinstall. I did it a couple of times but i can't make it work. Can somebody help me with this please??
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I didn't have any previous version installed, my macbook is brand new. My problem is perfectly explained here and I did what it says to solve it..but I just can't.
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/333517.html
I've created the "ScriptingAdditions" folder and nothing. I've found (on the web) the "Adobe Unit Types" file and copied it into that folder and nothing happend.
Do anyone knows what's going on?? Thanks
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Problems Installing Adobe CS2 software

Hi,
I purchased my iMac aswell as Adobe CS2 software back in September. I started installing the CS2 software (4 discs) and by the last disc, installation froze and the drive sounded like it was in a continuous search on the disc. So I had to reboot and eject the disc. This continued for 2 more tries. I contacted Adobe and they said it was a disc problem, so I exchanged my CS2 for another CS2 disc set. I completely erased the previous CS2 applications, reinstalled OSX and tried again. This time it was the 2nd of 4 discs that just got skipped over - nothing even installed from that disc - the computer just spat it out and said: "disc 2 complete, please insert disc 3..."
Anyone think I have drive or hardware issues???

Hi Bushfire.
I had a very similar problem when I installed CS 1 under OS X 10.3 on an iBook. In that case it turned out that the version of Stuffit Expander supplied with the OS was too old. (The stuffit engine is, I believe used to unpack some or all of the goodies from the installer). After upgrading Stuffit Expander to - I think to version 7 at the time - the install went perfectly.
OS X 10.4 doesn't have any version of stuffit expander included with it at all. Have a look on versiontracker.com to download if you haven't allready got it. Could be worth a try.
I have subsequently installed CS 2 on my iMac G5, and everything went OK -so it CAN work.
Good luck - and let me know if it works.
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My adobe CS2 programs will not open on my macbook pro osx 10.5.8

Today my adobe cs2 suite programs will not open. They were working just fine a couple of days ago. And they have worked fine for years. I did not update to any new os that would cause them not to work. I really need to get some image work done soon and this is a real monkey wrench in my plans. I uninstalled everything and tried to reinstall from the disc and it would not let me do that either. I tried to download picasa just as a quick alternative to get some images edited tonight and it would not let me open that either, even though it said it was good for 10.5 or above. So the only thing I can think of is that I downloaded something that changed some settings?

Try http://www.lemkesoft.com/ GraphicConverter instead.
Mackeeper can also be a problem:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3036

Using Adobe CS2 on New Pro Book, Illustrator crashes consistently

I just got my MacBook Pro (3G RAM, 150G HD, External 120G HD, wireless mighty mouse, OSX 10.4.8) Installed Adobe CS2 Premium Edition.
Illustrator crashes every single time I use the Pathfinder tool (any filter).
Checked with Adobe, they say it is a problem between Illustrator and OSX 10.4.8 and I need to install 10.4.7, which they say will solve the problem.
How do I get a copy of 10.4.7 to fix this issue.
I will not go into how irritated I am that Adobe has not created an update to fix these incompatabilities or the fact that both Adobe and Apple know these problems exist yet do not mention it before you spend 3 grand on hardware or 1 grand on software. If an auto manufacturer did that they would be sued immediately. But since it is not my life, just my business that is in danger, who cares...
I know I said I wouldn't go there, but I am steamed!

Greetings,
We just received 12 MacPros that shipped with 10.4.8,
so taking them back to 10.4.7 is not a realistic fix for this 10.4.8 bug.
We did do all other suggestions we could find short of that, on Adobe support, and in these forums: update to Illustrator CS2 12.0.1, toss all the legal HTML files that had bad fonts, close the Appearance
palet then close Illustrator, toss the Illustrator plist file, repair permissions,
but only got marginal results. In files that have complex paths or raster files embedded, or are large dimensionally,
using the Pathfinder tools still crashes Illustrator.
Anyone have any new suggestions that could help us?? We use Illustrator quite a bit, particularly in signage, and this is almost a show stopper for even bothering to set these Macs up! Anyone gone back to CS on a MacPro?
I have sent a note to Apple Feedback requesting a fix.. 10.4.9??

Adobe CS2 on a Macbook Pro

I have installed Adobe CS2 on my Macbook pro. Everything runs except Photoshop and Version Cue. Have uninstalled twice. Still the same problem. Photosop gets to "loading Twain drivers" and then quits. Any Ideas?

You may have to copy and paste the link below. This is the first time that I have tried to paste a link on this site.
I am assuming that this is still a reliable fix.
Topic: Making Adobe CS2 and Intel Macs cooperate
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=716938&tstart=30

Hello, I use MAC AIR OSX 10.6.8 and have Adobe CS2, that I was using 2 years ago on my older computer. I stopped using it because it would close down in the middle of work. Now I would like to reinstall it on the MacAir but I can not get it working. It te

Hello, I use MAC AIR OSX 10.6.8 and have Adobe CS2, that I was using 2 years ago on my older computer. I stopped using it because it would close down in the middle of work. Now I would like to reinstall it on the MacAir but I can not get it working. It tells Adobe doesnT support my System. But I can not update my old version or activate it. What can I do?

The mac you want to install photoshop cs2 on is running mac os x 10.6.8 Snow Leopard?
(photoshop cs2 won't run on intel macs with mac os x newer than snow leopard)
Did you ever have cs2 installed on this particular computer before?
If the problem is that you already installed cs2, but it won't activate, that's because adobe took the activation servers offline for some older adobe products such as cs2.
You'll need to use the non activation version of cs2 from here and the supplied serial number:
Activation server shut down for Creative Suite 2, Acrobat 7, and Macromedia products

Since The Security Update, my Adobe CS2 software will not function properly. Is it common with everyone?

I am having issues trying to run my adobe cs2 programs cause it says there is a disk error and will crash when I go to save something. All this occurred after I made my firmware update for the security as of tonight, and earlier in the daytime, it was functioning propperly.

Simmilar problems.Indesign CS3 crashes if I try to place anything or save. Freehand 10 crashes if I try to place, export or save as, though I have managed to save some files. It seems just about anything that accesses the disc crashes these apps now, apart from simply opening the files. Some Freehand files wo'nt even open now, crashing as soon as the app starts up. These are all documents with placed content, again necessitating more disc activity I suppose.
This has all suddenly occured since tonight's security update.
How the **** does the worlds most successful software company manage to screw up so ineptly? A while ago I suddenly lost access to most of my fonts within all my Adobe and Microsoft programs, immediately following one of Apple's security updates. I have never managed to resolve this issue. I was left with only Truetype fonts available in these programs, though the missing fonts remained available in other software, including Apple's own apps such as textedit.
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Mac Pro and Adobe CS2

Since I have been using Adobe CS2 on my Mac Pro, I have been having alot of crashes especially Indesign. Anyone else had problems and know of a way to fix it? I have updated all my software.

Grant,
I've installed Windows XP Pro to run Photoshop CS2, Vue5 Infinite, and a number of other programs which have yet to be rewritten for Intel Macs as well as numerous Windows only apps. While it is true that Photoshop runs at a native speed on Windows, it runs just fine under Rosetta for me. I suspect it depends on the file sizes one works with and what your expectations are. Coming from an older G4, Photoshop with Rosetta is much faster than my old computer. Typically I work on 100 - 300mb images.
The original inquiry was about crashing issues and Version Cue is a real culprit and known issue as is running Photoshop and Illustrator concurrently. As I'll run just one at a time because of that issue and all my Adobe licenses are for specific apps rather than the suites so Version Cue was never an issue, I've not had a Adobe crash yet.
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all the extracted files should be placed in the same directory. by default they fail to extract in the same directory so you will need to manually move them.

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Adobe CS2 Installation, activation and using

Adobe Sucks! Now that I have got that out of my system! Yes it is my Fault! Here is the problem.
Adobe makes great products that are over priced. (Creative Suites-$2500.00 Retail even upgrades)
CS2, Yes it is an older version. Still is a fine product. Original computer that had CS2 installed, finally bit the dust and went to Electronic waste recycle. New computer (Windows XP Sp3-Got Windows XP just to run Adobe CS2)
Installation of SW completed wiht no errors. Installation activation complete with no errors. Run In Design - "Personalize Your Software" window appears and asks for input of serial number. Input serial number (as on Box, CD, etc.) error message states "Serial number entered is not Valid. Please check and re-enter" It is correct and valid serial number. program closes. When runing Photoshop first screen appears with error box stating "Photo Shop can not find valid Serial Number" Same serial number entered during installation and activation of software package. Called Adobe on phone - on hold for 1.5 hours listening to elevator music. Contacted on line chat for help. They said that the problem could be resolved only on the phone. Called on phone again. This time was able to talk to Adobe Technical Rep. All I heard was "CS2 is to old and not supported by Adobe". Buy a new package ($2,500.00) again. No discount for upgrade. No on line Adobe support, No phone Adobe support, Sorry for the inconvience Adobe Support. Can anyone help make Adobe CS2 work? or Do I throw it away and write off Adobe as a Software company and find someone else?

Jungle Rot please see Error: "...user name, organization, or serial number is missing or invalid..." when you start Photoshop (CS2 on Windows) - http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/error-user-name-organization-or.html. There are several steps which should help you solve for this issue.

Adobe CS2 Intall failed, now dead iMac!

Hi All,
Just got to the third disc of an install of Adobe CS2 on Intel Imac Core Duo 20". Second disc refused to come out of drive when the screen was saying to change the disc and now the iMac does not respond to anything. No key presses were registered. The cursor moves but does not click.
I tried turning off the mac (holding in power button to force off, only option) and restarting with mouse button held down to eject disc, but it still doesn't get to the desktop for more than a second before it jams. Even the time, bluetooth and volume icons do not appear before the imac freezes.
Recent switcher and not that Mac savvy. Outside of 3 month support period, which *****.
Help!
Rich
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My first question is did you install the Security Update Apple released yesterday for iMac Intels? There is a startup item that CS2 places in HD>Library>StartupItems that conflicts with OS X after the Security Update install and prevents a complete system start.
If this is causing your problem you need to reboot in Safe Mode by starting the computer and holding the shift key until the gray screen with the Apple Logo appears. This boot takes much longer than a normal start, sometimes 3 to 5 minutes, because it is verifying and repairing the directory. Safe Mode does not allow 3rd party startup Items to load. After your Mac Desktop appears you will be able to navigate to the startupItems folder and remove the CS2 item. The Mac should be able to do a normal restart without freezing now.

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I had problems installing adobe cs2, computer froze, had to go into safe mode, etc. I did my software update and was able to install everything but my newest problem is that ONLY photoshop will work. Indesign and Illustrator come up with some error and won't open. IM GOING CRAZY here. I need to design NOW and I cant. someone HELP!!!!!!!! THANKS!=)

i downloaded the new QT update and its still doing the same thing. im going crazy here. i reinstalled the entire cs2 suite. and both times unchecked version que. i hate this i hate this i hate this. it makes no sense that only photoshop works. grrrr
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