Trouble with CS 4 corruption

I recently crashed my wife's Mac desktop updating to a new os (10.5). Lost everything, and backups did not work. Saved files, though.
I ran Migration from my lap, and it froze when it got to CS4, but it did upload it.. Evidentally my CS4 from my laptop was in some way compromised. It works fine to a point. Creates new docs fine. Will no longer open many previously created docs, saying that plugins may be corrupted. I compared my plugins with laptop and they are a match. While I was installing a new harddrive, I figured, I might as well add another. So, I have 2 bootable harddrives on this computer. I tried to install CS4 on the second hard drive, but it does not like the serial number of my old CS3. Oy. So, I am now opening my old files on a trial version of CS 4 on my backup harddrive. This party will end in 27 days. Keeps asking if I want to buy a serial number, I thought there were plugins to reinstall in the Goodies file of the CS4 install disk, but no.
This is my wife's lifeline. I can take no chances with the one she has on the main hard drive, that is corrupted somehow, so I need to keep it running, and fix it. I worked for about 30 or 40 hours restoring her to this point and she will kill me if I mess her up again. There are no scabs left to pick. Not to mention that she ran a marketing business from my laptop for 2 weeks, and it will never be the same. I literally did my business on an iPhone 4s, which was educational, but a little slow.
I would like to strangle the inventor of Apple's "Backup" program with the little umbrella on 10.4, since it is worthless and cost me a load of dough, sleep, hours, and anger from my wife. I am now running Time Machine, and, Carbon Copy Cloner. Fool me twice. Help?
Thanks.
BAD

Bob,
One more thing.
I do have the serial numbers. On my 2nd new hard drive, I installed
OSX 4.11. Installed my old programs from scratch. Everything worked
fine until I got to InDesign. (The one that my wife relies on a lot
in her marketing company).
I installed the CS 4 upgrade that I have been using for years (Davis
marketing Systems). When I finished the download, it asked me for the
serial number of the old version from which I was upgrading, and said
that it needed it, since it could not find an upgradable version.
Logical. The problem is: It asked for the serial number of the old,
upgradable program. I inserted the serial number for my CS# progran,
and it said that it is not a valid serial number.
So, I downloaded the CS3. Used the serial number that CS 4 would not
previously recognize. It installed easily with its own serial number.
So, at that point (and now), i have CS3, and am on day 6 of my trial
period for CS 4, which I happen to own. Adobe has tried to sell me
upgrades for that numerous times. I figured, that i had it made now,
since i had CS 3 in. I went back and opened a file in CS4. I got the
same message and the same results. It could not find the CS 3 serial
number it its proper place on the computer, so I entered it (it had
just been used in the CS 3 install) and it told me that it was invalid.
That's my story, to date. I have seen similar problems on the boards.
(Before I tried migration, I tried to copy a laptop to the empty new
hard drive. That crashed too. Cause of crash corrupt CS4)
Thanks again. I really do appreciate your fast service and attempts
to help.
Bill Davis
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My bet would be that there is an issue with the .dpx file format. It may be the way they are written, stored, named, the bit-depth... any number of issues. The fact that they don't show up is COLOR's way of telling you that there is a compatibility problem. My experience is that 10-bit and above is poorly handled at the moment, and is not supported at all by some previous versions of Quicktime and Shake, for example, under Leopard, and not even Tiger .4.11. What I started getting were perfect proxy renditions, but actual rendered material was almost pure noise, except there were shadowy remnants of the original scene.
Consider yourself lucky that the application stopped you at this point, rather than allow the project to go forward, then corrupt after you had devoted a considerable amount of your time and energy to it, then have to go back to fix the original files and do ti all over again, or struggle with reconform, etc.
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An Archive and Install will NOT erase your hard drive, but you must have sufficient free space for a second OS X installation which could be from 3-9 GBs depending upon the version of OS X and selected installation options. The free space requirement is over and above normal free space requirements which should be at least 6-10 GBs. Read all the linked references carefully before proceeding.
1. Be sure to use Disk Utility first to repair the disk before performing the Archive and Install.
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
2. Do not proceed with an Archive and Install if DU reports errors it cannot fix. In that case use Disk Warrior and/or TechTool Pro to repair the hard drive. If neither can repair the drive, then you will have to erase the drive and reinstall from scratch.
3. Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When you reach the screen to select a destination drive click once on the destination drive then click on the Option button. Select the Archive and Install option. You have an option to preserve users and network preferences. Only select this option if you are sure you have no corrupted files in your user accounts. Otherwise leave this option unchecked. Click on the OK button and continue with the OS X Installation.
4. Upon completion of the Archive and Install you will have a Previous System Folder in the root directory. You should retain the PSF until you are sure you do not need to manually transfer any items from the PSF to your newly installed system.
5. After moving any items you want to keep from the PSF you should delete it. You can back it up if you prefer, but you must delete it from the hard drive.
6. You can now download a Combo Updater directly from Apple's download site to update your new system to the desired version as well as install any security or other updates. You can also do this using Software Update.

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I had trouble with my iPhoto constantly crashing, so I downloaded and used iPhoto Library Manager. Now when I am trying to get back to using iPhoto by re-importing my pictures, I keep getting a notification saying there is not enough space on my harddrive. I have spent a long time deleting large and unneccessary files all over my computer, but I am still unable to import my images to the iPhoto library.
Does anyone have an idea of what I can do? I am starting to get worried that I will never be able to reach my pictures again
+ I have deleted all iPhoto iPod caches or whatever they're called based on recommendation from many sites.

OS X needs about 10 gigs of hard drive space for normal OS operations - things like virtual memory, temporary files and so on.
Without this space your Mac will slow down as the OS hunts for space on the disk, files will be fragmented, also slowing things down, apps will crash and the risk of data corruption - that is damage to your files, photos, music - increases exponentially.
Your first priority is to make more space on that HD. Nothing else can be done until you do.
Purchase an external HD and move your Photos and Music to it. Both iPhoto and iTunes can run perfectly well with the Library on an external disk.

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HI everyone,
I've been having trouble with using time machine to back-up to my 1 TB LaCie drive (purchased 5/12, unfornuately I was dumb and didn't register the drive and no longer have the box with the serial number and there is no serial number on my drive. The only problem I had up until the end of August was that every so often the LaCie drive (using my FW 800 port) would unmount after waking up from sleep.
The end of August the drive unmounted for no reason while I was on the computer doing a task. Could not get the LaCie drive remounted (rebooting, etc. etc.) To make a long story short, ended up calling apple care who took me through resetting my SMC and PRAM to no avail. Was booted to higher level of support who walked me through trying to repair my drive using the disk utiltiy. When that didn't work, she walked me through erasing and reformatting the LaCie drive and starting a new time machine back-up. Every thing ok until about ten days ago.
Last week, when I woke my iMac up from sleep, I got an error saying that the disk was not ejected properly and I could not mount the drive. Restarting did nothing, the disk did not mount. Shutting down and rebooting seemed to solve the problem and the disk was mounted. Every so often I've had the problem with the disk unmounting after waking up from sleep before. So, I changed my energy sleep preferences. At the end of the day when I am done, I'd unmount the LaCie drive before putting the Mac to sleep using the apple menu.
Today I came in to start my day, plugged the drive in and it would not mount. Tried rebooting nothing. Went into the disk utility, at first the LaCie drive passed the disk verify (6:26:25 and 6:26:38). Then I went into repair disk on the indented drive at 6:27:13, I wasn't sure what it is was doing, thinking that it had hung, I stopped the repair at 6:27:24. Exited disk utility, and the LaCie drive mounted. But I was getting a read only error when I tried to back-up using time machine. So, I went back into disk utility at 6:27:35, when I verified the disk (indented disk), I got an error saying the disk need to be repaired. After several minutes the disk could not be repaired. So, I erased and reformatted the drive. Ran a time machine back-up and it seemed to back-up everything on my hard drive. Just ran another verify disk and it passed.
Is the drive failing? Have some other back-ups of my documents, my address book, iCal and am going to make a backup of some of my pref files and important e-mail files and am going to do some more back-ups after I am done.
Have reached out to the women at apple care whom I talked to last August, but don't expect to hear back from her for at least 24 hours.
Here is my disk utility log
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Verifying partition map for “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Starting verification tool:
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking prerequisites
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking the partition list
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking for an EFI system partition
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking the EFI system partition’s size
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking the EFI system partition’s file system
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: The partition map appears to be OK
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Verifying partition map for “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Starting verification tool:
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking prerequisites
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking the partition list
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking for an EFI system partition
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking the EFI system partition’s size
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking the EFI system partition’s file system
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: The partition map appears to be OK
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:27:13 -0500: Disk Utility started.
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Verifying and repairing partition map for “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Starting repair tool:
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Checking prerequisites
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Checking the partition list
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Checking for an EFI system partition
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Checking the EFI system partition’s size
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Checking the EFI system partition’s file system
2013-11-07 06:27:23 -0500: Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
2013-11-07 06:27:24 -0500: Reviewing boot support loaders
2013-11-07 06:27:24 -0500: Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
2013-11-07 06:27:24 -0500: Updating Windows boot.ini files as required
2013-11-07 06:27:24 -0500: The partition map appears to be OK
2013-11-07 06:27:24 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:27:24 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:27:35 -0500: Verifying volume “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:27:35 -0500: Starting verification tool:
2013-11-07 06:27:35 -0500: Checking file system2013-11-07 06:27:35 -0500: Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.2013-11-07 06:27:35 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:27:35 -0500: Disk Utility stopped verifying “LaCie”: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.
2013-11-07 06:28:05 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:28:13 -0500: Verify and Repair volume “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:28:13 -0500: Starting repair tool:
2013-11-07 06:28:13 -0500: Checking file system2013-11-07 06:28:13 -0500: Volume repair complete.2013-11-07 06:28:13 -0500: Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.2013-11-07 06:35:05 -0500: Stopped by user
2013-11-07 06:44:56 -0500: Disk Utility started.
2013-11-07 06:45:20 -0500: Verifying volume “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:45:20 -0500: Starting verification tool:
2013-11-07 06:45:20 -0500: Checking file system2013-11-07 06:45:20 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-11-07 06:45:20 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-11-07 06:45:20 -0500: Checking catalog file.
2013-11-07 06:45:59 -0500: Missing thread record (id = 5057741)
2013-11-07 06:46:06 -0500: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-11-07 06:46:19 -0500: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-11-07 06:46:38 -0500: Invalid directory item count
2013-11-07 06:46:38 -0500: (It should be 0 instead of 4)
2013-11-07 06:46:38 -0500: Invalid volume directory count
2013-11-07 06:46:38 -0500: (It should be 166840 instead of 166841)
2013-11-07 06:46:38 -0500: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-11-07 06:47:05 -0500: Checking multi-linked directories.
2013-11-07 06:48:10 -0500: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-11-07 06:48:12 -0500: Checking volume information.
2013-11-07 06:48:12 -0500: The volume LaCie was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
2013-11-07 06:48:12 -0500: Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.2013-11-07 06:48:12 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:48:12 -0500: Disk Utility stopped verifying “LaCie”: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.
2013-11-07 06:48:12 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:50:02 -0500: Verify and Repair volume “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:50:02 -0500: Starting repair tool:
2013-11-07 06:50:02 -0500: Checking file system2013-11-07 06:50:02 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-11-07 06:50:02 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-11-07 06:50:02 -0500: Checking catalog file.
2013-11-07 06:50:41 -0500: Missing thread record (id = 5057741)
2013-11-07 06:50:48 -0500: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-11-07 06:51:02 -0500: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-11-07 06:51:20 -0500: Invalid directory item count
2013-11-07 06:51:20 -0500: (It should be 0 instead of 4)
2013-11-07 06:51:20 -0500: Invalid volume directory count
2013-11-07 06:51:20 -0500: (It should be 166840 instead of 166841)
2013-11-07 06:51:20 -0500: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-11-07 06:51:47 -0500: Checking multi-linked directories.
2013-11-07 06:52:55 -0500: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-11-07 06:52:56 -0500: Checking volume information.
2013-11-07 06:52:56 -0500: Repairing volume.
2013-11-07 06:52:56 -0500: Missing directory record (id = 5057741)
2013-11-07 06:52:56 -0500: Look for missing items in lost+found directory.
2013-11-07 06:53:10 -0500: Rechecking volume.
2013-11-07 06:53:10 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-11-07 06:53:10 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-11-07 06:53:10 -0500: Checking catalog file.
2013-11-07 06:53:16 -0500: Incorrect number of thread records
2013-11-07 06:53:22 -0500: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-11-07 06:53:35 -0500: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-11-07 06:53:53 -0500: Invalid directory item count
2013-11-07 06:53:54 -0500: (It should be 5 instead of 6)
2013-11-07 06:53:54 -0500: Invalid volume directory count
2013-11-07 06:53:54 -0500: (It should be 166844 instead of 166842)
2013-11-07 06:53:54 -0500: Invalid volume file count
2013-11-07 06:53:54 -0500: (It should be 1056326 instead of 1056321)
2013-11-07 06:53:54 -0500: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-11-07 06:54:20 -0500: Checking multi-linked directories.
2013-11-07 06:55:25 -0500: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-11-07 06:55:26 -0500: Checking volume information.
2013-11-07 06:55:26 -0500: Repairing volume.
2013-11-07 06:58:06 -0500: Rechecking volume.
2013-11-07 06:58:06 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-11-07 06:58:06 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-11-07 06:58:07 -0500: Checking catalog file.
2013-11-07 06:58:12 -0500: Incorrect number of thread records
2013-11-07 06:58:18 -0500: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-11-07 06:58:31 -0500: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-11-07 06:58:50 -0500: Invalid volume directory count
2013-11-07 06:58:50 -0500: (It should be 166844 instead of 166842)
2013-11-07 06:58:50 -0500: Invalid volume file count
2013-11-07 06:58:50 -0500: (It should be 1056326 instead of 1056321)
2013-11-07 06:58:50 -0500: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-11-07 06:59:17 -0500: Checking multi-linked directories.
2013-11-07 07:00:22 -0500: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-11-07 07:00:24 -0500: Checking volume information.
2013-11-07 07:00:24 -0500: Repairing volume.
2013-11-07 07:03:03 -0500: Rechecking volume.
2013-11-07 07:03:03 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-11-07 07:03:03 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-11-07 07:03:04 -0500: Checking catalog file.
2013-11-07 07:03:09 -0500: Incorrect number of thread records
2013-11-07 07:03:15 -0500: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-11-07 07:03:29 -0500: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-11-07 07:03:47 -0500: Invalid volume directory count
2013-11-07 07:03:47 -0500: (It should be 166844 instead of 166842)
2013-11-07 07:03:47 -0500: Invalid volume file count
2013-11-07 07:03:47 -0500: (It should be 1056326 instead of 1056321)
2013-11-07 07:03:47 -0500: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-11-07 07:04:14 -0500: Checking multi-linked directories.
2013-11-07 07:05:19 -0500: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-11-07 07:05:20 -0500: Checking volume information.
2013-11-07 07:05:20 -0500: The volume LaCie could not be repaired after 3 attempts.
2013-11-07 07:05:21 -0500: Volume repair complete.2013-11-07 07:05:21 -0500: Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.2013-11-07 07:05:21 -0500: Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.2013-11-07 07:05:21 -0500:
2013-11-07 07:05:21 -0500: Disk Utility stopped repairing “LaCie”: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
2013-11-07 07:05:21 -0500:
2013-11-07 07:09:45 -0500: Disk Utility started.
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500: Preparing to erase : “LaCie”
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500:     Partition Scheme: GUID Partition Table
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500:     1 volume will be erased
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500:         Name        : “LaCie”
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500:         Size        : 999.86 GB
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500:         File system    : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500: Unmounting disk
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500: Erasing
2013-11-07 07:11:54 -0500: Initialized /dev/rdisk1s2 as a 931 GB HFS Plus volume with a 81920k journal
2013-11-07 07:11:54 -0500: Mounting disk
2013-11-07 07:11:54 -0500: Erase complete.
2013-11-07 07:11:54 -0500:
2013-11-07 10:38:00 -0500: Disk Utility started.
2013-11-07 10:38:12 -0500: Verifying volume “LaCie”
2013-11-07 10:38:12 -0500: Starting verification tool:
2013-11-07 10:38:14 -0500: Checking file system2013-11-07 10:38:14 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-11-07 10:38:14 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-11-07 10:38:14 -0500: Checking catalog file.
2013-11-07 10:38:29 -0500: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-11-07 10:38:29 -0500: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-11-07 10:38:41 -0500: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-11-07 10:39:04 -0500: Checking multi-linked directories.
2013-11-07 10:39:31 -0500: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-11-07 10:39:32 -0500: Checking volume information.
2013-11-07 10:39:32 -0500: The volume LaCie appears to be OK.
2013-11-07 10:39:32 -0500: Repair tool completed:
2013-11-07 10:39:32 -0500:
2013-11-07 10:39:32 -0500:

I just got a call back from the upper level support person at apple care who had been advising me on my trouble with time machine and my LaCie 1 TB FWD. I had sent her much of the same verbiage as I posted here. As some of you have probably figured out, the verdict is that the drive is probably failing. She says this because I have had to do two erase and reformats. She thought that the intermitant problem that I have had with the drive unmounting when my iMac wakes from sleep could be related to the drive failing.
In the meantime I have a secondary back-up (not using time machine) and the LaCie 1 TB FWD is working for the moment.
Thanks to all who read all my verbiage.
And in the meantime, I've learned something. I marked this question as solved. But I'm open to other things to try.
Message was edited by: njtreehugger minor edits and update

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