Photoshop will not launch. Window indicates need JAVA SE6. Already have it, but re-installed. Photoshop will still not launch. Help! MacOS 10.10.1

Question

Since installing Mac OS 10.10.1 photoshop will not run, it will not launch. A window indicates that it needs JAVA SE6 to run. JAVA SE6 is installed. I have re-installed and restarted but photoshop will not run and I get the same message window that I need to install JAVA SE6. How do I make this work?

Answer 1

Have you added any Photoshop Add-on that uses an external JavaScript.  Photoshop itself has is own ScriptingSupport Plug-in and does not use an external java.  Also Java SE6 is old and has security issues you should update to version SE8
Note the plug-in is system info
Adobe Photoshop Version: 2014.2.1 20141014.r.257 2014/10/14:23:59:59 CL 987299  x64
Required plug-ins:
   3D Studio 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Accented Edges 15.2.1
   Adaptive Wide Angle 15.2.1
   Angled Strokes 15.2.1
   Average 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Bas Relief 15.2.1
   BMP 15.2.1
   Camera Raw 8.7
   Camera Raw Filter 8.7
   Chalk & Charcoal 15.2.1
   Charcoal 15.2.1
   Chrome 15.2.1
   Cineon 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Clouds 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Collada 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Color Halftone 15.2.1
   Colored Pencil 15.2.1
   CompuServe GIF 15.2.1
   Conté Crayon 15.2.1
   Craquelure 15.2.1
   Crop and Straighten Photos 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Crop and Straighten Photos Filter 15.2.1
   Crosshatch 15.2.1
   Crystallize 15.2.1
   Cutout 15.2.1
   Dark Strokes 15.2.1
   De-Interlace 15.2.1
   Dicom 15.2.1
   Difference Clouds 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Diffuse Glow 15.2.1
   Displace 15.2.1
   Dry Brush 15.2.1
   Eazel Acquire 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Embed Watermark 4.0
   Entropy 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Export Color Lookup Tables NO VERSION
   Extrude 15.2.1
   FastCore Routines 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Fibers 15.2.1
   Film Grain 15.2.1
   Filter Gallery 15.2.1
   Flash 3D 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Fresco 15.2.1
   Glass 15.2.1
   Glowing Edges 15.2.1
   Google Earth 4 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Grain 15.2.1
   Graphic Pen 15.2.1
   Halftone Pattern 15.2.1
   HDRMergeUI 15.2.1
   HSB/HSL 15.2.1
   IFF Format 15.2.1
   IGES 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Ink Outlines 15.2.1
   JPEG 2000 15.2.1
   Kurtosis 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Lens Blur 15.2.1
   Lens Correction 15.2.1
   Lens Flare 15.2.1
   Liquify 15.2.1
   Matlab Operation 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Maximum 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Mean 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Measurement Core 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Median 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Mezzotint 15.2.1
   Minimum 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   MMXCore Routines 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Mosaic Tiles 15.2.1
   Multiprocessor Support 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Neon Glow 15.2.1
   Note Paper 15.2.1
   NTSC Colors 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Ocean Ripple 15.2.1
   OpenEXR 15.2.1
   Paint Daubs 15.2.1
   Palette Knife 15.2.1
   Patchwork 15.2.1
   Paths to Illustrator 15.2.1
   PCX 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Photocopy 15.2.1
   Photoshop 3D Engine 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Photoshop Touch 14.0
   Picture Package Filter 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Pinch 15.2.1
   Pixar 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Plaster 15.2.1
   Plastic Wrap 15.2.1
   PLY 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   PNG 15.2.1
   Pointillize 15.2.1
   Polar Coordinates 15.2.1
   Portable Bit Map 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Poster Edges 15.2.1
   PRC 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Radial Blur 15.2.1
   Radiance 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Range 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Read Watermark 4.0
   Render Color Lookup Grid NO VERSION
   Reticulation 15.2.1
   Ripple 15.2.1
   Rough Pastels 15.2.1
   Save for Web 15.2.1
   ScriptingSupport 15.2.1  <------------------------------------------------------------------ Photoshop Scripting Support Plug-in
   Shake Reduction 15.2.1
   Shear 15.2.1
   Skewness 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Smart Blur 15.2.1
   Smudge Stick 15.2.1
   Solarize 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Spatter 15.2.1
   Spherize 15.2.1
   Sponge 15.2.1
   Sprayed Strokes 15.2.1
   Stained Glass 15.2.1
   Stamp 15.2.1
   Standard Deviation 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   STL 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Sumi-e 15.2.1
   Summation 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Targa 15.2.1
   Texturizer 15.2.1
   Tiles 15.2.1
   Torn Edges 15.2.1
   Twirl 15.2.1
   U3D 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Underpainting 15.2.1
   Vanishing Point 15.2.1
   Variance 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Virtual Reality Modeling Language | VRML 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Water Paper 15.2.1
   Watercolor 15.2.1
   Wave 15.2.1
   Wavefront|OBJ 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   WIA Support 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   Wind 15.2.1
   Wireless Bitmap 15.2.1 (2014.2.1 x001 x003)
   ZigZag 15.2.1
Optional and third party plug-ins:
   CUR (Windows Cursor) NO VERSION
   Face Control II 2.00
   Fine Touch 3.25
   GREYCstoration NO VERSION
   ICO (Windows Icon) NO VERSION
   Reduce Noise 7.0.0.0
   ScriptListener 13.0
   StarFilter Pro 3 3.0.5.1
   SuperPNG 2.0
   Variations 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)
Plug-ins that failed to load: NONE
Flash:
   Libraries
   Adobe Color Themes
Installed TWAIN devices: NONE