IMac, Version 10.93. Illustrator CS6 right now suddenly crashes...

Question

iMac, Version 10.93. Illustrator CS6 right now suddenly crashed. Now when I try to launch the program it immediatley crashes. In the support section it says that I should move all third-party plug-ins that are not compatible with Mavericks. I don't know what that means exately (I havn't myself installed any third party plug-ins).  As I'm on a deadline here please help? Thx in advance.

Answer 1

I FOUND IT!
I had SIMBL and afloat installed, which are powerful but hacky tools for Mac OS X window management. After I downloaded SIMBL and ran the uninstaller and rebooted, Illustrator works again.
It dawned on me that it must have been something I installed, so created a new user on my laptop and ran Illustrator. I ran Illustrator as the new user and it worked!
I logged back in as myself. First I tried disabling all user fonts via Font Book. That didn't help.
Then I used the dtrace command and ran Illustrator on both accounts. I used the following command which gives me a nice sorted list of (almost) every file opened by Illustrator:
sudo -l
'/Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS6/Adobe Illustrator.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Illustrator' &!
sudo dtruss -f -t open -p `ps auxww | grep -i illustrator | grep -v grep | grep -vi crash | awk '{print $2}'` 2>&1 | tee /tmp/log
# hit ctrl-c
cat log | perl -lne'if (/open\("(.*?)\\0/) { print $1 }' | egrep -v '/.vol' | sort | uniq >files
...then I diffed both lists of files. Besides some obvious cache stuff, the big thing that my copy of Illustrator seemed to be opening was SIMBL and afloat. As I said, I uninstalled SIMBL and restarted, and voila!
So glad to finally have fixed this. Between Photoshop and OmniGraffle and in a pinch InkScape, I've pretty much replaced Illustrator, but there are times when I really need to do vector design. I'll miss afloat though.