On Feb 25, 2010, at 9:42 PM, Brendan MacRae wrote: > CS4 has been plagued with install issues, as you've seen firsthand. I have > the entire suite here that absolutely refuses to install on my Mac. I tried > the Adobe forums first, then tech support (free for installation issues) and > spent a good 6-7 hours of my life on the phone and was never able to get the > stupid thing to install. It's just a complete joke. None of the clean scripts > they have do a damn thing except get the install to a further point before > failing. > I guess I was lucky. I installed the whole Creative Suite Deluxe on both my Macs with no problems. Paul
> > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Mark Roberts <m...@robertstech.com> >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >> Sent: Thu, February 25, 2010 6:13:27 PM >> Subject: Let's not bitch about Pentax... Let's bitch about Adobe. >> >> There's nothing about the CS3 applications that doesn't suit me. > But... the >> courses I'm teaching are built around the CS4 Adobe apps > and it's becoming >> increasingly difficult to plan lessons for classes > that use the CS4 >> interfaces while I'm working with the CS3 > interfaces... so, even though it's >> expensive (even with an academic > discount), I recently ordered the Adobe CS4 >> "Production Premium" > suite. > > I was dreading the install Even before I >> started. Adobe won't let you > "upgrade" apps - you have to install the new >> software alongside your > existing versions, transfer plug-ins and Actions and >> then uninstall > the old versions. Infuriating. But that's how it goes if >> everything > *works*. Which it didn't. > > Error message that says some >> component installs failed: a list that > includes just about every application >> in the suite. Multiple tries. > Disabling firewall and anti-virus software. >> Many re-boots. Manually > uninstalling old versions before installing new ones. >> A Google search > on the error message I'm getting reveals I'm far from alone. >> None of > the official or unofficial remedies works. One brilliant >> suggestion > from Adobe: "Try installing on another computer". Hey Doug! Wanna >> let > me install my new Adobe software suite on your computer? > > Finally, >> I just let the installation run through to the end, even > though it warned me >> at the beginning that almost none of the aps would > be installed. Strangely, >> it goes through all 4 DVD's. And in the end > about half of the apps do >> install, even though the error message said > they wouldn't. Only Premiere Pro, >> After Effects and Encore failed. And > I deleted the CS3 versions at the start >> (and I'm afraid to risk trying > to re-install them at this point). >> Fortunately, my new laptop is > (barely) powerful to do the limited video >> editing I need to do at the > moment, and it has the CS3 suite, so I can get >> by. > > I'm thinking all along, "I paid $$$ for this when I probably >> could > have found a torrent with a crack that would have installed with >> less > trouble!" > > Good news is that the CS4 version of Adobe Bridge seems >> to be stable > enough to be actually usable (Bridge CS3 caused me no end of >> trouble). > > Other good news is that my laptop has demonstrated that 64-bit >> Windows > 7 looks like a winner, so I'll soon be upgrading my desktop OS. With >> a > clean install, I'm hoping that the CS4 install works completely if >> I > install before any of the other software. Yeah, call me a >> dreamer... > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> ymailto="mailto:PDML@pdml.net"; >> href="mailto:PDML@pdml.net";>PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to >> UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow >> the >> directions. > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
