Using my Mac all pdfs result in zero byte files

I have uninstalled and reinstalled with the same result.

This sounds very alarming. Please help us understand what you are seeing as it is not typical and may even be unique. For instance,
* are these old PDFs which used to be fine but which now are not?
* is it new PDFs that you are making (how)?
* how do you see that they are zero bytes?
* what Mac OS?
* anything else you can think of especially, other strange things starting around the same time.

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hmartires wrote:
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