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I have the Creative Suite 5.5. Illustrator starts, but trying to open (.ai or .pdf) or save a file causes it to crash
I have deleted the preferences folder
used uninstaller to uninstall complete Creative Suite package. Used Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool.app afterwards.   Reinstalled.   Still it crashes.
Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat Pro all seem fine.
Here is the start of the crash report, I can give more if it would help. Any help would be appreciated!
Process:         Adobe Illustrator [17332]
Path:            /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS5.1/Adobe Illustrator.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Illustrator
Identifier:      com.adobe.illustrator
Version:         39 (15.1.0)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [122]
Date/Time:       2012-06-14 16:05:18.973 -0600
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E53)
Report Version: 9
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000002
VM Regions Near 0x2:
--> __PAGEZERO             0000000000000000-0000000000001000 [    4K] ---/--- SM=NUL /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS5.1/Adobe Illustrator.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Illustrator
    __TEXT                 0000000000001000-00000000010de000 [ 16.9M] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS5.1/Adobe Illustrator.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Illustrator
Application Specific Information:
objc[17332]: garbage collection is OFF
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   ???                                     0x00000002 0 + 2

Larry,
I did the unintall of just Illustrator and removed Preferences, however following directions the Cleaner Tool would not just clean for Illustrator. the XLM file it produced did not list Illustrator separately, nor any Suite compenent, just Creative Suite (XLM listed below). So I just uninstalled the whole suite, rebooted, then went back to the Cleaner Tool.   I tried to used the terminal command
sudo /PDHilman's Path to Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool ‐‐removeAll=CS5
But that gave an error message silent mode only worked for CS5.5 or below and went back to the GUI (odd). I then used the Cleaner Tool GUI and removed all CS5 - CS5.5.   The log file is also below.
I went into my library and there were still many CS5 - CS5.5 items under Application Support and Preferences! For example com.adobe.illustrator.plist.lockfile
I then reinstralled the whole suite.
STILL ILLUSTRATOR CRASHES WHEN TRYING TO OPEN A FILE.
I note, I think the last thing I did before this started was followed some directions to copy Mathematica fonts into my user library so I wasn't missing some math symbols when editing PDFs created with Mathematica. But that was successful and I was able to open/edit/save them just fine.
--------XLM file----------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<Products>
    <Properties>
        <Property name="eulaAccepted">1</Property>
    </Properties>
    <CreativeCloud>
        
    </CreativeCloud>
    <CS6></CS6>
    <CS5>
        
    </CS5>
    <CS4></CS4>
    <CS3></CS3>
</Products>
--------Log file from Cleaner-------------------
2012-06-26 23:17:54.313 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] ***************Starting New Session*****************
2012-06-26 23:17:54.314 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] Cleaner tool Version: 6.0.0.27
2012-06-26 23:17:54.315 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] ERROR: This version of cleaner tool supports silent mode only for CS3, CS4 or CS5-CS5.5 products. Falling back to UI mode.
2012-06-26 23:17:54.316 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] Mode=UI mode
2012-06-26 23:17:54.386 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] ========================================
2012-06-26 23:18:33.691 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] Product=CS5-CS5.5-CS6
2012-06-26 23:18:33.701 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] Backup PDB created at /Library/Application Support/Adobe/backup20120626T231833/pdb.db
2012-06-26 23:18:33.867 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] Backup Media DB created at /Library/Application Support/Adobe/backup20120626T231833/Media_db.db
2012-06-26 23:18:33.869 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] Removing installer related files for 'CSInstaller' 'CS5_CS6_EXCLUDING_AAM'
2012-06-26 23:18:33.896 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] Removing product content of : CSInstaller (CS5_CS6_EXCLUDING_AAM) ...
2012-06-26 23:18:33.898 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] /Users/phillman5/Library/Application Support/Adobe/OOBE, no such file or directory.
2012-06-26 23:18:33.898 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] /Users/phillman5/Applications/Adobe/OOBE, no such file or directory.
2012-06-26 23:18:33.899 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] Successfully removed : /Library/Application Support/Adobe/SLStore_v1
2012-06-26 23:18:33.899 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] Successfully removed : /Library/Application Support/Adobe/caps/pdb.db
2012-06-26 23:18:33.900 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] Successfully removed : /Library/Application Support/Adobe/caps/Media_db.db
2012-06-26 23:18:33.900 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] /Library/Application Support/Adobe/caps/pdb.db_preserved, no such file or directory.
2012-06-26 23:18:33.900 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] /Library/Application Support/Adobe/caps/Media_db.db_preserved, no such file or directory.
2012-06-26 23:18:33.902 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] csi inventory count = 0
2012-06-26 23:18:33.902 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] noncsi inventory count = 0
2012-06-26 23:18:33.902 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] aam files count = 1
2012-06-26 23:18:33.902 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] Removed updater inventory for csi products
2012-06-26 23:18:54.540 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] Product=CS5-CS5.5
2012-06-26 23:18:59.015 Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool[378:707] ***************End Session*****************

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