'You cant open the application Adobe Photoshop CS6 because it may be damaged or incomplete'

This Message appears after clicking on the icon after installing from creative cloud. Can't try installing again as AAM says that it is already installed.
Installed on iMac OSX 10.6.8

After several days of this annoying me and trying various different things, I finally found the solution!!
Open Terminal and run this command and it will reset the launch services to let it work properly.
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.fra mework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -domain locat -domain system -domain user
The problem began for me once I removed photoshop because the update kept failing. So I uninstalled photoshop cs6 using their uninstall script, and then re-installed it with the creative cloud application manager. From then on I could not "double click" on a .PSD to open photoshop directly, but "open with" would work. Very strange.. but the above command fixed it.
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