Freehand 11.02 No Longer Opening Leopard 10.5.8

Hi, I am hoping you can help me. I am running Leopard 10.5.8 and in the last few days Freehand 11.02 is refusing to launch. The icon keeps bouncing in The Dock. I downloaded the Adobe Fix although I do not think that it is applicable. I have repaired permissions, reinstalled Freehand, deleted preferences. I have researched extensively online to no avail.. Any further ideas? It is such a wonderful programme. Thank you

Hi, did you recently upgrade to 10.5.8?
If so, this problem has happened off and on to folks over the last year or two after an upgrade. There are two threads here that deal with the problem but I'll make it easy by also quoting the author's quick answer:
Solution #1 OSX 10.5.7 and Freehand
I found a solution that works.
After
starting Freehand start Activity Monitor and find the process
AuthenticationS (or something like that). You'll find it by sorting by
CPU activity. It'll be the process using the most CPU. If I force quit
it Freehand starts without a problem for me and will keep starting up
without a problem until I reboot.
For some reason
Freehand will wait for a response to whatever it is that
AuthenticationS wants until hell freezes over. But since there is no
visible panel to respond to force quitting seems the only solution I've
found. Lucky it works at least for me.
Hope this helps.
bastu
Solution #2 Problems with Leopard 10.5.3 ?
This is on an Intel iMac.
OK! I installed everything new, Leopard 10.5, then the 10.5.3
combo update and finally Freehand with the 11.02 build 92 update
and IT IS WORKING!
Later I carefully installed all my things in Library and the
moste important Apps and did a check of Freehand running after each
app I installed.
So I dont know what the problem was, but its definitely
running now in 10.5.3.
Thank you all!
thumahawk
I suggest reading the entire threads linked above as the first solution seems temporary with the second one being permanent but a hassle to reinstall Leopard. As for myself, FreeHand runs just fine on my 10.5.8 Intel MacPro Quad but I had a fresh install of Leopard with update before installing FreeHand MX.
Let us know if you get it to work.
— Mark

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