Lightroom CC 2015 crashes

Lightroom continues to crash. Would appreciate anyone who can help with this. Been going on for two days now and I am getting nothing done. Will accept any and all suggestions.

My ultimate solution. In frustration I deleted everything I could find on my Mac connected with Lightroom, CC, Flash, Adobe AIR, etc., etc., including suspport and preference files in my account and in root. Ran CC Cleaner Tool until there was nothing left.
Then I gingerly started rebuilding the installation by first re-installing the CC Desktop app. After that (and singing in with my Adobe ID) I re-downloaded my Apps (Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC). A couple (maybe 3) times the results showed the apps were installed but needed updates, which were tagged as "failed". Logging in and out of CC Desktop eventually led to stable functional installation and Im back to using LR(CC) and P'shop(CC) without difficulty.
My speculation? After several years of downloading and sometimes deleting various Adobe stuff there was something on my HD, probably in some obscure Application Support folder or a preferences folder that was causing the current CC Desktop installer to choke.
What bugs me is that Adobe seems to have (despite some fine products) a curiously self-centered approach to living within the Apple OS system. No other application I own has got such a convoluted and easily upset installation process.

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